The longtable package defines an environment that has most of the features of the tabular environment. In addition however, tables may be broken by TeX’s standard page breaking algorithm. Furthermore, it uses the same counter “table” as the table environment and has a \caption{…} command. Finally, “longtables” will be listed in the list of tables … [Read more…]
The following post will show you how to better present your data in tables through coloring rows/columns or even single cells to highlight important data. You will need the following two packages, the first to define new colors and the latter to actually color the table: Let me first show you how to define a … [Read more…]
One of my last posts was on how to define the width of a column in a table (see here). The parbox (p), which is used by Latex when you define the column width, will by default align its content on the left. This can be changed, but is a bit tricky. The keyword is: … [Read more…]
I am sure you know the situation where you have several columns in a tabular which all are of the same type: Now this can be simplified as follows using the *(star) symbol: The advantages are obvious, the table can be easily extended, you don’t have to count the numerous c’s, l’s or r’s and … [Read more…]
Latex will automatically adjust the width of a cell in a table. If you wish to have a table where each cell in a row has the same width, you would use the p option instead of l, c or r for left, centre or right alignment. Example: