I'm trying to replicate the following table:
At first I was thinking of making it by dividing all the content into single cells, but since there are those numbers enclosed in curly brackets, I told myself it was not very convenient (especially considering the numbers on the left of each curly bracket are actually vertically aligned). Then I thought of dividing the table into "groups" of cells
\documentclass{article} \usepackage{multirow} \usepackage{amsmath} \title{Table} \author{Dude} \begin{document} \begin{table}[] \centering \begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|} \hline \multicolumn{1}{|c|}{I} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{\multirow{2}{*}{II}} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{\multirow{2}{*}{III}} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{\multirow{2}{*}{IV}} \\ \cline{1-1} n \qquad l \qquad m & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{} \\ \hline \multirow{5}{*}{1} & \multirow{14}{*}{} & 1 orbitale & 1 \\ \cline{3-4} & & 1 orbitale & \multirow{4}{*}{4} \\ & & \multirow{3}{*}{3 orbitali} & \\ & & & \\ & & & \\ \cline{1-1} \cline{3-4} \multirow{9}{*}{3} & & 1 orbitale & \multirow{9}{*}{9} \\ & & \multirow{3}{*}{3 orbitali} & \\ & & & \\ & & & \\ & & \multirow{5}{*}{5 orbitali} & \\ & & & \\ & & & \\ & & & \\ & & & \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table} \end{document}
, artificially make the n, l, m columns with \qquad and then handle the aligned stuff using the align environment. However, pdfTeX immediately throws out an error saying I can't use it inside a tabular environment. So now I'm stuck.
Any help on how to proceed would be appreciated. Thank you
P.S.: the reason I thought about using the align environment is because I need the braces of the original pic and I also need the numbers aligned.