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eidolon1977
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Joined: Sun Mar 31, 2013 5:22 pm

Are embedded tabular the answer?

Post by eidolon1977 »

Hi,

I've been struggling for some time trying to format a moderately complex table of numbers and I'm starting to wonder if embedding multiple tabular blocks was a good idea to start with...

At this point, I was trying to place the row headings for my data: "case 1", "case 2", etc, and it started looking very much like my approach was flawed.

You'll probably get a good idea of what I want just by looking at the compiled result. It's the vertical lines that should coincide (although the detached sub-tables under "First Order" and "Second Order" also look fine this way, after all...)

Here's my horrendous code :oops:

Code: Select all

Code, edit and compile here:
\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\caption{\label{tab_results_alpha+} Method results on the $\alpha_+$ branch}
\scriptsize{
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
& $\beta_+$ & $\beta_-$ \\
&
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
First Order & Second Order \\
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
n & nr & t \\
\hline
1 & 2 & 3 \\
\hline
4 & 5 & 6
\end{tabular}
&
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
n & nr & nf & t \\
\hline
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
\hline
5 & 6 & 7 & 8
\end{tabular}
\end{tabular}
&
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
First Order & Second Order \\
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
n & nr & t \\
\hline
1 & 2 & 3 \\
\hline
4 & 5 & 6
 
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I'm still fairly noob in LaTeX and any help would be greatly appreciated.

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tom
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Are embedded tabular the answer?

Post by tom »

Try multicolumn instead.

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\caption{\label{tab_results_alpha+} Method results on the $\alpha_+$ branch}
\scriptsize{
\begin{tabular}{*{7}{c}|*{7}{c}}
\hline
\multicolumn{7}{c}{$\beta_+$} & \multicolumn{7}{c}{$\beta_-$} \\
\multicolumn{3}{c}{First Order} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{Second Order} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{First Order} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{Second Order} \\
\hline
n & nr & t & n & nr & nf & t & n & nr & t & n & nr & nf & t \\
1 & 2 & 3 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \\
4 & 5 & 6 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
}
\end{table}
\end{document}
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eidolon1977
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Re: Are embedded tabular the answer?

Post by eidolon1977 »

It does the trick. I learnt something new about LaTeX today.

Cheers, mate!
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