Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ rotated centred boxes in a nonrotated table?

[marto1980]

Dear LaTeX users,

I have a question regarding tables. I would like to ask you how to produce the table that I have attached (LongTerm.pdf) with LaTeX, more specifically with Beamer? I have tried so far with the package rotating, but I could not reproduce the good-looking horizontally and vertically centred writings in the table boxes. I would be very thankful if someone provides me some clue.

Thanks in advance,

Martin Ivanov

[frabjous]

Vertical centering is always tricky, and combining it with rotation is going to make things tricky. You can get pretty close by combing the m column specification with \centering, but even then, sometimes manual tweaks are needed -- at least as far as I know. Maybe someone else will be able to suggest something better.

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\documentclass[12pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{helvet}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{center}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.4}
\begin{tabular}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{4ex}>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{4ex}>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{4ex}>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{4ex}}
\cline{3-4}
% row 1
& & 1963 & 1976 \\
\hline
% row 2
\multirow{2}{*}{%
\rotatebox{90}{Climate Indices\hspace{-0.4em}}
}
& 
\rotatebox{90}{\textcolor{red}{\shortstack{Polarity\\Change}}\ } 
&
\textcolor{red}{\shortstack{SOI\\PNA\\AMO}}
&
\textcolor{red}{\raisebox{-0.6ex}{\shortstack{NAO\\SOI\\PNA\\PDO}}}
\\ \cline{2-4}
&
\rotatebox{90}{Extrema\ } 
&
\shortstack{NAO\\PDO}
& \\
\hline
\rotatebox{90}{\shortstack{Thermal\\Forcings}\ } 
&
\rotatebox{90}{\shortstack{Trend\\Change}\ }
&
EPG
& \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

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[marto1980]

frabjous,
Thank you really very very much for your reply, it was tremendously helpful. However, as I am using a coloured version of this table there are some further complications. Here is a working example of my table:

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\begin{tabular}{*{4}{>{\columncolor[gray]{1}\centering\arraybackslash}m{4ex}}}
\hhline{~~--}
% row 1
& & \raisebox{-.3ex}{1963} & \raisebox{-.3ex}{1976} \\
\hline
% row 2
\multirow{2}{*}{%
\rotatebox{90}{Climate Indices\hspace{-0.4em}}
}
&
\rotatebox{90}{\textcolor{red}{\shortstack{Polarity\\Change}}\ }
&
\textcolor{red}{\shortstack{SOI\\PNA\\AMO}}
&
\textcolor{red}{\raisebox{-0.6ex}{\shortstack{NAO\\SOI\\PNA\\PDO}}}\\
\hhline{~---}

&
\rotatebox{90}{Extrema\ }
&
\shortstack{NAO\\PDO}
& \\
\hline
\rotatebox{90}{\shortstack{Thermal\\Forcings}\ }
&
\rotatebox{90}{\shortstack{Trend\\Change}\ }
&
EPG
& \\ \hline
\end{tabular}

The problem is that in the third row the white background for the first cell overlaps the "Climate" inscription and so it looks empty. Is there any trick to circumvent this problem? Also, I need to make the horizontal rule for the first cell in the second row white, as currently, although it is not printed, it has taken the background colour from the beamer block, which is not right.

I am posting an outlook of the current state of my table in my beamer presentation (Table.png). Any suggestions will be appreciated.