General ⇒ Results table

[niall]

Hello all,

I'm doing an assignment for one of my electives this year, and I need to put a table of results in it. I somehow managed to get by last year without using any tables in my Dissertation, so I'm a bit new to the tables bit. What I want to achieve looks like this:



the code i've used so far looks like this:

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\begin{tabular}{| c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c |}
\hline
QB & \multicolumn{2}{c |}{Conductivity} &  \multicolumn{2}{c |}{Absorbance} &  \multicolumn{2}{c|}{Pressure} & Dial. Temp &  \multicolumn{2}{c |}{Clearance} \\
ml min$^{-1}$& mS & mmHg & & $^\circ$C & ml min$^{-1}$ \\
\hline
 & inlet & outlet & inlet & outlet & P$_{Bo}$ & P$_{Do}$ &  & NaCl & Na-BSP\\
\hline
300 & 13.87 & 6.42 & 0.465 & 0.39 & 28 & 0 & 38.2 &  & \\
200 & 14.03 & 4.09 & 0.467 & 0.367 & 18 & 0 & 36.5 &  & \\
100 & 13.63 & 1.75 & 0.477 & 0.345 & 13 & 0 & 36.4 &  & \\
50 & 13.75 & 0.30 & 0.482 & 0.292 & 12 & 0 & 37.0 &  & \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

and this gives:



I've had a go with multirows, but that doesn't seem to be working either:



The code i used to try that is the following:

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\begin{tabular}{| c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c |}
\hline
\multirow{2}{*}{QB} & Conductivity &&  Absorbance &  Pressure & Dial. Temp &  Clearance \\
ml min$^{-1}$& \multicolumn{2}{c|}{mS} & mmHg & & $^\circ$C & ml min$^{-1}$ \\
\hline
 & inlet & outlet & inlet & outlet & P$_{Bo}$ & P$_{Do}$ &  & NaCl & Na-BSP\\
\hline
300 & 13.87 & 6.42 & 0.465 & 0.39 & 28 & 0 & 38.2 &  & \\
200 & 14.03 & 4.09 & 0.467 & 0.367 & 18 & 0 & 36.5 &  & \\
100 & 13.63 & 1.75 & 0.477 & 0.345 & 13 & 0 & 36.4 &  & \\
50 & 13.75 & 0.30 & 0.482 & 0.292 & 12 & 0 & 37.0 &  & \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

cheers!

[localghost]

First of all you should avoid vertical lines to increase readability of your table. The misalignment comes from a wrong placement of the alignment character (&) and incorrect usage of the \multicolumn command. Look at the following code.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}
\usepackage[centering,includeheadfoot,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{array,dcolumn,booktabs}
\usepackage{textcomp,txfonts}
\usepackage{units}

%General settings
\parindent0em

% Column settings for tables (array,dcolumn)
\newcolumntype{d}{D{.}{.}{-2}}
\newcolumntype{e}{D{.}{.}{-3}}

\begin{document}
  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \centering
    \caption{A results table}\label{tab:results}
    \begin{tabular}{cddeeccccc} \toprule
      QB & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Conductivity} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Absorbance} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Pressure} & Dial.~Temp & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Clearance} \\
      \unitfrac{ml}{min} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{mS} & & & \multicolumn{2}{c}{mmHg} & \textcelsius & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\unitfrac{ml}{min}} \\ \midrule
      & \multicolumn{1}{c}{inlet} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{outlet} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{inlet} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{outlet} & P\textsubscript{Bo} & P\textsubscript{Do} &  & NaCl & Na-BSP\\ \toprule
      300 & 13.87 & 6.42 & 0.465 & 0.39 & 28 & 0 & 38.2 &  & \\
      200 & 14.03 & 4.09 & 0.467 & 0.367 & 18 & 0 & 36.5 &  & \\
      100 & 13.63 & 1.75 & 0.477 & 0.345 & 13 & 0 & 36.4 &  & \\
      50 & 13.75 & 0.30 & 0.482 & 0.292 & 12 & 0 & 37.0 &  & \\ \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
  \end{table}
\end{document}

As you can see, I did also some minor visual enhancements to typesetting of physical units. You can get information about the used packages and their documentations on the servers of the CTAN.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[niall]

thank you! I'll give it a try just now and see what happens!