Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Indented text on multicolumn

[Antz]

I have made a table that has a heading in a multicolumn. For some reason, when I have two columns and the heading should span both and be flushed to the left, it is indented anyway. I tried to make a MWE (my first!) to explain the problem. I want the heading in table 1 ("Implemented functionality") to look like the headings in table 2. This seems to occur whenever there is only one "item" across all columns (see table3 in the MWE)

How do I fix this?

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{multirow}





\begin{document}

\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{Overview of functionalities implemented in the panel}
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}} lp{0.9\textwidth}}
\toprule
\multicolumn{2}{l}{\noindent Implemented functionality} \\
\midrule
A & Visualization of blabla \\
B & Visualization of other blabla \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular*}
\end{table}



\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{Overview of principle-related functionality selection}
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}} p{0.45\textwidth}lp{0.46\textwidth}}
\toprule
Principle & \multicolumn{2}{l}{Implemented functionality} \\
\midrule
A & Visualization of blabla & blabla \\
B & Visualization of other blabla & blabla\\
\addlinespace
\bottomrule
\end{tabular*}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{Overview of principle-related functionality selection}
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}} p{0.45\textwidth}lp{0.46\textwidth}}
\toprule
\multicolumn{3}{l}{Implemented functionality} \\
\midrule
A & Visualization of blabla & blabla \\
B & Visualization of other blabla & blabla\\
\addlinespace
\bottomrule
\end{tabular*}
\end{table}


\end{document}

[frabjous]

If I understand your concern, the problem is that by using the \multicolumn command in the first column, you've overriding the column specification for the first column, which includes the @{\extracolsep{\fill}} part. You'll need to reinsert that when you specify the setting for the multicolumn cell, e.g.:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{multirow}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{Overview of functionalities implemented in the panel}
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}} lp{0.9\textwidth}}
\toprule
\multicolumn{2}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}l}{\noindent Implemented functionality} \\
\midrule
A & Visualization of blabla \\
B & Visualization of other blabla \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular*}
\end{table}



\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{Overview of principle-related functionality selection}
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}} p{0.45\textwidth}lp{0.46\textwidth}}
\toprule
Principle & \multicolumn{2}{l}{Implemented functionality} \\
\midrule
A & Visualization of blabla & blabla \\
B & Visualization of other blabla & blabla\\
\addlinespace
\bottomrule
\end{tabular*}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{Overview of principle-related functionality selection}
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}} p{0.45\textwidth}lp{0.46\textwidth}}
\toprule
\multicolumn{3}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}l}{Implemented functionality} \\
\midrule
A & Visualization of blabla & blabla \\
B & Visualization of other blabla & blabla\\
\addlinespace
\bottomrule
\end{tabular*}
\end{table}

\end{document}

[Antz]

worked like a charm! thank you!

it's my first latex project, so I'm just copying examples here and there; i'm trying to understand what I'm doing as much as possible but sometimes I'm in the dark. this was one of those cases, and it was the first time i asked helped. again, i learned!

[localghost]

worked like a charm! thank you! […]

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Thorsten

[Antz]

sorry! i guess i hanged on the MWE thing. done!