Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Table with 56 columns

[dmuthu_cse]

Hi friends,

I am totally confused how to insert to the below attached table to my latex code.

I am using book class, with LED editor. My text area is 8in x 6in.. I thought of doing it in landscape, but the column width overcomes the size..

I am confused.. Please help me with your suggestions..

Regards,
Muthu

[localghost]

[...] I am confused.. Please help me with your suggestions.. [...]

By now you should be fairly familiar with the setup of a tabular environment. Use the \multicolumn command and the features provided by the multirow package. You can decrease the font size with appropriate switches right before your table. Start with a basic structure on your own. The caption package provides features for continued floats. In case of upcoming problems, feel free to ask further questions.


Best regards
Thorsten

[dmuthu_cse]

Hello thorsten,

thanks for your reply..

I have tried according to your advice. But,I could not get exactly what I want. The table is lasting over the page, and I couldn't see the remaining content.

however, I can reduce the fontsize, I am not able to reduce the individual column width..

I am therewith attaching the code for a single row.. Please go through and guide me.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage[  centering,
  headheight=14pt,
  headsep=10pt,
  includehead,
  papersize={7in,9.5in},
  text={6in,8in},
  dvips=false,
  pdftex=false,
  vtex=false]{geometry}
\usepackage[cam,a4,center,dvips]{crop}
\begin{document}
\begin{landscape}
\begin{table}
\caption{Heloo}
\centering
\tiny
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c||c|c|c|c|c|c|c|} \hline
1.2&42&40&38&36&34&32&30&29&27&25&33&32&30&28&27&25&23&22&21&19&25&23&22&20&19&17&17&16&14&12&17&15&14&13&12&11&10&9&7&6&10&8&7&6&5&4&3&2&1&0\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{landscape}
\end{document}

Thanks in advance....

With regards,
Muthu

[localghost]

There just isn't enough space for the table in this format. The key problem is your special page format which presumably can't be changed (and which is smaller than the one we discussed recently). All I can advice is to reorganize the table structure to make it fit on the page. Otherwise split the table on several pages and use the already mentioned \ContinuedFloat command from the caption package. On other starting point is to modify the length \tabcolsep (default value set to 6pt).

[dmuthu_cse]

Dear Thorsten,

Thank you very much... Successfully, I've got the idea from your previous reply.

I am working on it.. I will get to you back, if I held up with some other thing.

Regards,
Muthu

[dmuthu_cse]

Hello friends,

Can you please suggest me if, how can I change the font of a particular table alone in my chapter.

Thanks in advance..

Regards,
Muthu

[gmedina]

Hi,

can you please specify which attribute(s) of the font should be changed (size, family, shape,...)?

[dmuthu_cse]

Hello gmedina,
i need to change both the family and size..

and i would like to introduce \arraystretch command for that particular table.

Next.. can i specify, the column width for specific column and make alignments like (left, right, center} in it. I've just tried the below code, to do insist specific width, but i cannot align the columns.. It is automatically justified as i have given p{width}.. let me know the other options...

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begin{center}
\small
\begin{longtable}{|p{2.0in}@{}|p{0.6in}@{}|p{0.8in}@{}|p{0.6in}@{}|p{0.8in}@{}|}
\caption{Different types of MCB distribution boards}\\
\hline \textbf{Type description}& \textbf{No. of phases} & \textbf{Protection class} & \textbf{Number of ways} & \textbf{No of MCB modules} \\ \hline 

Thanking you

Regards,
Muthu

[gmedina]

Hi,

to change the font size, you could use one of the standard switches: \tiny, \scriptsize, \footnotesize, \small, \large, \Large, \LARGE, \huge or \Huge. Another option could be to use the \fontsize command (in this case you might need to load some other package, as fix-cm).

To change the font family, you could use the \fontfamily command. The psnfss2e document (that should be in your system somewhere in a directory of the form doc/latex/) can be used to learn some of the standard font families available in every standard LaTeX installation.

Take a look at the following example (I enclosed the relevant commands using braces to keep the changes local):

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate some text automatically

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]
\noindent\begin{table}[!ht]
  \centering
    {\fontfamily{ptm}\fontsize{5}{9}\selectfont
    \begin{tabular}{p{.4\linewidth}p{.4\linewidth}}
    \lipsum[1] & \lipsum[1]
  \end{tabular}}
  \caption{a test table}
  \label{tab:test}
\end{table}
\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

[dmuthu_cse]

Hello gmedina,

Thank you very much...

It helped me a lot.. I am happy about the result now..

can i specify, the column width for specific column and make alignments like (left, right, center} in it. I've just tried the below code, to do insist specific width, but i cannot align the columns.. It is automatically justified as i have given p{width}.. let me know the other options...

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begin{center}
\small
\begin{longtable}{|p{2.0in}@{}|p{0.6in}@{}|p{0.8in}@{}|p{0.6in}@{}|p{0.8in}@{}|}
\caption{Different types of MCB distribution boards}\\
\hline \textbf{Type description}& \textbf{No. of phases} & \textbf{Protection class} & \textbf{Number of ways} & \textbf{No of MCB modules} \\ \hline

Thank you in advance..

Regards,
Muthu