General ⇒ tabular/table: various questions (width, center, vspace)

[jimisola]

Hi!

1. Is it possible to specify column width and center its context?

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\begin{tabular}{|p{4cm}|p{10cm}|}
        want this column do be centered & this column to be left or right adjusted\\
...

2. Is it possible to specify that a table/tabular should occupy to complete width of the page (minus margins of course)?
That is, similar to 100% if you talk XHTML/CSS.

3. I would like certain rows to have a little more vertical spacing (above and below the text in the column) as they act as headers.

4. Is it possible to add a light gray background to a row?

Regards,
Jimisola

[gmedina]

The tabularx, tabulary and colortbl packages could be useful.

[jimisola]

The tabularx, tabulary and colortbl packages could be useful.

Thank you for the pointers!

I manage to use colortbl successfully and tabulary so that it matches \textwidth and with columns being aligned left, right och center.
For those that searched and ended up here:

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\begin{table}[h!t]
	\centering
    \begin{tabulary}{\textwidth}{|C|L|}
    ...

However, I was not able to figure out how to give row a little more spacing (question 3 in the previous post) and vertically center (i.e. not top or bottom) the text in a row as well.

Finally, I have a "\fbox{\parbox{}{..." environment where I want to limit its width to \textwidth so that it is nicely aligned with text as well tables.
How do I do this? I tried "...\parbox{\textwidth}..." without success.

Regards,
Jimisola

[gmedina]

The \vphantom command (it produces a zero-width box of height and depth equal to those of its argument) can be useful. Look at the following example:

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\documentclass{article} 

\begin{document} 

\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
  \hline
  A & B & C \\ \hline
  \vphantom{\rule{0pt}{30pt}} D & E & F \\[25pt] \hline
  G & H & I \\ \hline
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

[jimisola]

The \vphantom command (it produces a zero-width box of height and depth equal to those of its argument) can be useful. Look at the following example:

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\documentclass{article} 

\begin{document} 

\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
  \hline
  A & B & C \\ \hline
  \vphantom{\rule{0pt}{30pt}} D & E & F \\[25pt] \hline
  G & H & I \\ \hline
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

Cannot get it to work with tabulary:

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\begin{table}[h!t]
    \centering
    \begin{tabulary}{\textwidth}{|C|L|}
        \hline
	 \rowcolor[gray]{.75}
         \vphantom{\rule{0pt}{20pt}} Col1 & Col2 \\[12pt]
        \hline 

as only Col2 is vertically centered. Only 8 google hits...

Sorry for asking all this questions, but this you have any idea on the fbox/parbox and textwidth issue?

Really appreciate your help.

Kind Regards,
Jimisola

[gmedina]

Regarding the tabulary issue, you can use something like

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\documentclass{article} 

\usepackage{tabulary}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{calc}
\begin{document} 

\begin{table}[!ht]
  \begin{tabulary}{\textwidth}{|C|L|}
    \hline
    Col1 & Col2 \\
    \hline
    \rowcolor[gray]{0.8}
    \vphantom{\rule{0pt}{20pt}} Col1 & \vphantom{\rule{0pt}{20pt}} Col2 \\[12pt]
  \end{tabulary}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Regarding the \fbox issue I do not understand exactly what you need. Maybe the boxedminipage package can be useful. Look at the following example (the blindtext package was loaded only to automatically generate some text):

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{boxedminipage} 
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document} 

\blindtext

\noindent\begin{boxedminipage}[t]{\linewidth}
  \blindtext
\end{boxedminipage}

\end{document}

[jimisola]

Ok. I've attached a pdf file now with a page that illustrates my problems. The text is in Swedish hopefully that won't be an issue

The LaTeX is seen below.

1. I managed to get the vertical spacing in the tabulary environment. The boxing lines on top and on the left side are not visible however. Any ideas on how to resolve this?

2. The fbox issue (not having a width of text width is also illustrated) is shown in the box with the title "Definition of hot". I want it to be lined up with the tabular below otherwise it looks strange. For some reason the last item has it text stretched I'll have. I'm not sure that I like this, so if you have any idea on what it is called and how to fix it I'd appreciate it.

I really appreciate your help. It is really hard to figure some of these things out by yourself when you don't even now when to look for

Regards,
Jimisola

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\newpage
\begin{center} 
\fbox{
	\parbox{14cm}{

			\begin{center}
			\textbf{Definition av hot}
			\end{center}

			Hot är definerade som händelser eller fel som:
				\begin{itemize}
					\item sker utan påverkan från besättningen
					\item ökar den operationella komplexiteten av en flygning
					\item kräver besättningens uppmärksamhet och agerande/handhavande om säkerhetsmarginaler skall bibehållas
				\end{itemize}
	}
}
\end{center} 

\begin{table}[h!t]
	\centering
    \begin{tabulary}{\textwidth}{|C|L|}
        \hline
				\rowcolor[gray]{.75}
         \vphantom{\rule{0pt}{10pt}}Miljöhot & \vphantom{\rule{0pt}{10pt}}Exempel \\[10pt]
        \hline 
        ogynnsam (eng: adverse) väder & åskväder, turbulens, dålig sikt, vindsjuvning, risk för isbildning, icing conditions, IMC\\\hline 
        flygplats & \\\hline 
        ATC &  \\\hline 
        miljöoperativt tryck (eng: Env Op Pressure) &  \\
				\hline 
				\rowcolor[gray]{.75}				
        Flygbolagshot & Exempel \\[12pt]
        \hline
        flygplan & \\\hline 
        flygbolagoperativt tryck & \\\hline 
        kabin & \\\hline 
        dispatch/pappersarbete & \\\hline 
        ground/ramp& \\\hline 
        markunderhåll & \\\hline 
        manualer/kartor & \\\hline 
		  \end{tabulary}
	\caption{Typer av hot samt exempel}
	\label{bakgrund_tem_hot_exempel}
\end{table}

[jimisola]

The boxedminipage is exactly what I wanted. Thank you.

[ubuntu_user101]

Is it possible to set a column width in a table and set the column to be aligned to the right?
{c p{5em} l} but I still want p{5em} to be aligned to the right.