Document Classes ⇒ Citation language and a table question

[JyriL]

I've been writing a document in Finnish and used bibTeX and natbib for the citations. Is there any way to change the language for these two? My main problem is with two-author articles which natbib cites as (Author1 and Author2). The English "and" doesn't look very elegant there when everything else arround is in Finnish. This could be translated into finnish "ja" but also "&" will do fine. Also the "editor" and "booktitle" entries in the "inproceedings" template include english text that I would like to have translated in the bibliography.

An unrelated question is about tables. In the same document I present quite a lot of numerical data in a big table that fills entirely one page. The table is infact so large that its lowest rows plus the caption go over the page number at the bottom of the page. What do you suggest as solutions to get rid of the overlapping? Moving the table a few cm up or reducing its size would be best.

[localghost]

[...] An unrelated question is about tables. In the same document I present quite a lot of numerical data in a big table that fills entirely one page. The table is infact so large that its lowest rows plus the caption go over the page number at the bottom of the page. What do you suggest as solutions to get rid of the overlapping? Moving the table a few cm up or reducing its size would be best.

You could reduce the size by changing the font size generally for the whole table.

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\begin{table}[!p]
  \centering
  \small
  \begin{tabular}{lcr}
    ...
  \end{tabular}
  \normalsize
  \caption{A large table reduced in size}\label{tab:table}
\end{table}

When using the caption package, you can omit the last switch for normal font size.


Best regards and welcome on Board
Thorsten

[Juanjo]

There are bibliography styles that cooperate with babel. Read the documentation of the abstyles and babelbib bundles, which may be of some interest for you.


Concerning your problem with big tables, you may find useful this thread about too wide tables. Some of the ideas there can be applied in your case. Instead, you can move up the table with \raisebox, writing something like \raisebox{vertical space}{code of the tabular environment}

[sommerfee]

When using the caption package, you can omit the last switch for normal font size.

The original code for \caption contains a \normalsize, too, so usually it can be omitted anyway.

Axel

[FrankZA]

I have often had to change the font size to small for the contents of my tables. Is it possible to change the default font size for tables (not their captions) to small (or something else for that matter)?

[balf]

By (re)defining the table environment, e.g.:
newenvironment{myownpersonaltable}{\small\begin{table}}{\end{table}}
and if you want to keep the same name for the environment, add:
\renewenvironment{table}{\begin{myownpersonaltable}}{\end{myownpersonaltable}}
(check for the optional arguments h,t,b,...)

B.A.

[FrankZA]

Thank you very much balf, I'll try that.

[FrankZA]

I found that

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\newenvironment{smalltable}{\begin{table}[!htb]\small}{\end{table}}
\newenvironment{foottable}{\begin{table}[!htb]\footnotesize}{\end{table}}
\newenvironment{scripttable}{\begin{table}[!htb]\scriptsize}{\end{table}}

works well. I tried the \renewenvironment part, that gave me errors though.