|
). The contents of the columns are
separated by a `&' and rows by \\
. Here's a simple example \begin{tabular}{l|c|r} left & centre & right\\ more left & more centre & more right\\ \end{tabular}
left | centre | right |
more left | more centre | more right |
To draw a full horizontal line, use \hline
otherwise draw a line
across selected columns using \cline
. The \multicolumn
command allows items to span columns. It takes as its first argument the number
of columns to span. The following, more complicated example shows how to use
these facilities.
\begin{tabular}{||l|lr||} \hline \textbf{Veg} & \multicolumn{2}{|c||}{\textbf{Detail}}\\\hline carrots & per pound & \pounds 0.75 \\ \cline{2-3} & each & 20p \\ \hline mushrooms & dozen & 86p \\ \cline{1-1} \cline{3-3} toadstools & pick your own & free \\ \hline \end{tabular}
Veg | Detail | |
---|---|---|
carrots | per pound | £0.75 |
each | 20p | |
mushrooms | dozen | 86p |
toadstools | pick your own | free |
Tables won't continue on the next page if they're too long. The longtable or supertabular commands are needed to do this. See the Supertabular document for details and examples.
If the text in a column is too wide for the page,
LATEX won't automatically text-wrap.
Using p{5cm}
instead of c
, l
or
r
in the tabular line will wrap-around the text in a 5 cm
wide column.
There are various packages to assist with table creation. The array package adds some helpful features, including the ability to add formatting commands that control a whole column at a time, like so
\begin{tabular}{>{\ttfamily}l>{\scshape}c>{\Large}r} Text & More Text & Large Text\\ Left & Centred & Right \end{tabular}
Text | MORE TEXT | Large Text |
Left | CENTRED | Right |
The rotating package is useful if you have a wide table
that you want to display in landscape mode. You need to put your table inside
\begin{sidewaystable}
and \end{sidewaystable}
.
If you want the table to have a caption and float (float up the page if it's started right near the foot of a page, for example), use
\begin{table}[htbp] \begin{tabular}... ... \end{tabular} \caption{...} \end{table}See section 4.7 for details.