General ⇒ Combined vertical and horizontal centering in table?

[daviddoria]

To get a horizontally centered column, you can use the 'c' column type. To get a vertically centered column, I saw to use the 'm' column type provided by the 'array' package (how do you know the width value to specify for this type??)

It won't let me combine to make a column of type 'mc' - is there an easy way to make the text centered in the column cell?

Here is an example: the commented line can replace the other 'tabular' line to flip-flop the vert/horiz centering.

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{array}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h]
	\centering
	\begin{tabular}{c|c|c|c|c}
%\begin{tabular}{m{1in}|m{1in}|m{1in}|m{1in}|m{1in}}

		Position & ICP Mean Distance & Confidence & Consistency & Image\\ \hline
		Correct & 0.057 & 0.579 & 0.589 & \fbox{\rule{0pt}{2in} \rule{0.3\linewidth}{0pt}} \\ \hline
		Incorrect & 0.094 & 0.252 & 0.077 & \fbox{\rule{0pt}{2in} \rule{0.3\linewidth}{0pt}}\\ \hline
	\end{tabular}
	\caption{Test.}
	\label{tbl:2carsValues}
\end{table}


\end{document}

Thanks,

Dave

[gmedina]

Hi,

you can use something like

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>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{1in}

in the declaration of the table format.

[daviddoria]

Great - this did it:

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{array}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h]
	\centering
%	\begin{tabular}{c|c|c|c|c}
%\begin{tabular}{m{1in}|m{1in}|m{1in}|m{1in}|m{1in}}
\begin{tabular}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{.1\linewidth}|>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{.1\linewidth}|>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{.1\linewidth}|>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{.1\linewidth}|>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{.6\linewidth}}

		Position & ICP Mean Distance & Confidence & Consistency & Image\\ \hline
		Correct & 0.057 & 0.579 & 0.589 & \fbox{\rule{0pt}{2in} \rule{2in}{0pt}} \\ \hline
		Incorrect & 0.094 & 0.252 & 0.077 & \fbox{\rule{0pt}{2in} \rule{2in}{0pt}}\\ \hline
	\end{tabular}
	\caption{Test.}
	\label{tbl:2carsValues}
\end{table}


\end{document}

Thanks,
Dave