General ⇒ multirow.sty' not found

[tripwire45]

I know this works, but I can't seem to get it to work *now*.

I am trying to solve a multirow problem at work and thought I'd do a little "homework" on my home system to see if I could get it fixed before tomorrow. To that end, I thought I'd create a simple LaTeX document to work with. Problem is, when I try to compile the document, I get the following error message:

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[LaTeX] multirow.tex => multirow.dvi (latex)
[LaTeX] finished with exit status 1
./multirow.tex:3:File `multirow.sty' not found. \begin
[LaTeX] 1 error, 0 warnings, 0 badboxes

Here's the document:

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{multirow}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}
\hline
\multicolumn{3}{|c|}{Team sheet} \\
\hline
Goalkeeper & GK & Paul Robinson \\ \hline
\multirow{4}{*}{Defenders} & LB & Lucus Radebe \\
 & DC & Michael Duberry \\
 & DC & Dominic Matteo \\
 & RB & Didier Domi \\ \hline
\multirow{3}{*}{Midfielders} & MC & David Batty \\
 & MC & Eirik Bakke \\
 & MC & Jody Morris \\ \hline
Forward & FW & Jamie McMaster \\ \hline
\multirow{2}{*}{Strikers} & ST & Alan Smith \\
 & ST & Mark Viduka \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

I took the example from here and I've used the example before, so I know it should work:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tabl ... tiple_rows

The problem I'm trying to solve (besides what I've just stated) is that I need to have multiple rows available in the 4th column of a 4 column table. Most examples I've seen while Googling have placed the multiple rows in the first column. I'm attaching a small PDF (odt and doc extensions weren't recognized) to illustrate what the table should look like.

Thanks again for your input.

[gmedina]

1) Your LaTeX installation is missing the multirow package, available from CTAN (use the link that I gave before). By the way, what LaTeX distribution are you using? If you are using a recent version of MikTeX then the package manager can install the package for you. (See automatic package installation from the MikTeX 2.7 manual).

2) You can produce a table like the one you attached in several ways, and I do not see (at last for that table) the need to use multirow. In the code below I provide two alternatives to build a table like the one you posted; the second one uses multirow.

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{multirowe}
\usepackage{array}

\begin{document}

\setlength\extrarowheight{3pt}

\noindent\begin{tabular}{*{4}{|>{\bfseries}p{.2\textwidth}}|}
  \hline
  Header 1     & Header 2     & Header 3     & Header 4    \\ \hline
  test text 1a & test text 2a & test text 3a & test text 4a \\ \hline
  test text 1b & test text 2b & test text 3b & First item  \\
  & & & Second item \\   
  & & & Third item  \\   
  & & & Fourth item \\ \hline   
\end{tabular}

\vspace{1cm}

\noindent\begin{tabular}{*{4}{|>{\bfseries}p{.2\textwidth}}|}
  \hline
  Header 1     & Header 2     & Header 3     & Header 4 \\ \hline
  test text 1a & test text 2a & test text 3a & test text 4a\\ \hline
  \multirow{4}{*}[7.5mm]{test text 1b} & \multirow{4}{*}[7.5mm]{test text 2b} & 
  \multirow{4}{*}[7.5mm]{test text 3b} & First item \\
  & & & Second item \\   
  & & & Third item \\   
  & & & Fourth item \\ \hline  
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

[tripwire45]

Great, gmedina! Thanks.

I'll plug that into the document I'm working on and see how it works.

I *thought* that the version of LaTeX I was using was the same both at home and at work. I am working on an Ubuntu 7.10 desktop and installed TeTex and Kile on both using Synaptic. There must be a package I installed on my work system that I failed to install at home. I'll have to check when I get home tonight.

Thanks again for the help.

-Trip

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Trip,

just one remark: perhaps you should consider installing TeX Live instead of teTeX. teTeX ist no more maintened, see here.

Stefan

[tripwire45]

Thanks, Stefan. One miracle at a time. I've got to get these documents created first.

Actually, this "lesson" also taught me something about affecting the fonts in tables...or at least, partly taught. Referring to the following:

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\noindent\begin{tabular}{*{4}{|>{\small}p{.2\textwidth}}|}

I can see that this sets the font and the width of the four columns rather than having to set each column individually such as:

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\begin{tabular}{l | c | c | | l | p{6cm}}

However, I have the need to "customize" some of the columns. For example, I need the text in the first three columns to be centered but the text in the last column to be left-aligned. Also, I would like to be able to bold the text in the top row but also in the first column. It seems that this should be possible. gmedina's example using \bfseries originally made the output of the table text bold.

I'm still struggling with exactly how to format all this, though and would appreciate some suggestions. Thanks.

[gmedina]

Hi tripwire45,

Proceeding like this is very time and effort consuming. Why don't you just tell us all the specifications of your table so we can stop solving little problems one at a time?

Anyway, the following examples might give you some hints as how to achieve what you desire:

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{array}

\begin{document}

\setlength\extrarowheight{3pt}

\noindent\begin{tabular}{|>{\bfseries}c|c|c|l|}
  \hline
  Header 1     & \textbf{Header 2} & \textbf{Header 3} & \textbf{Header 4}    \\ \hline
  text 1a      & text 2a           & text 3a      & text 4a \\ \hline
\end{tabular}

\vspace{1cm}

%since \centering and \raggedright redefine \\, you should use \tabularnewline
%instead of the usual new line command \\
\noindent\begin{tabular}{|>{\bfseries\centering}p{.2\linewidth}|>{\centering}p{.2\linewidth}|>{\centering}p{.2\linewidth}|>{\raggedright}p{.2\linewidth}|}
  \hline
  Header 1     & \textbf{Header 2} & \textbf{Header 3} & \textbf{Header 4}    \tabularnewline \hline
  test text 1a test text 1a test text 1a test text 1a test text 1a & 
  test text 2a test text 2a test text 2a test text 2a test text 2a &
  test text 3a test text 3a test text 3a test text 3a test text 3a & 
  test text 4a test text 4a test text 4a test text 4a test text 4a   \tabularnewline \hline
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

[tripwire45]

Sorry...I have been posting issues as they've come up.

I believe that I've posted all of the requirements in this thread by now. I did manage to reduce the size of the font, which makes the text fit better in the individual cells. Since I tried to implement the latest changes, the table now goes off the right size of the page. I'm trying to find a happy medium between font size, cell size, and overall table size.

To finish the requirements, I'd like to be able to make the first three columns more narrow. The longer text is all in the fourth column, while the first three only contain between one to four characters.

Again, sorry to be a bug about this.

[gmedina]

Don't worry. Have you tried using c for the three first columns in the table format declaration?

Some hints and useful advise regarding resizing tables were given by Juanjo on a fairly recent thread, but I couldn't find it. I'll give you the link if I find it.

Edit: this is the thread I was talking about.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Trip,

one additional hint for narrowing: you may change the space between columns, like

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\setlength{\tabcolsep}{2pt}

or even use @{...} to suppress the intercolumn space and insert something different at some places, see here.

Stefan

[tripwire45]

Great suggestions. Thanks, all. I was pulled off of the document requiring this particular table for another doc that isn't so "table intensive". I'll keep all of your ideas handy when I get back to my previous project.

Cheers.

-Trip