I am trying to move a multipage longtable left of the set margins in the document, but I have some difficulties with this as I'm completely new to LaTeX. I have a large table in Excel, which I've converted to a longtable environment in LaTeX with the website Tables Generator, copying it into my tex-file.
Here's a MWE:
%% Define document class with options
\documentclass[12pt,twoside,openright]{report}
\usepackage{geometry} % Easy modification of the page layout.
\geometry{a4paper,inner=28mm,outer=25mm,top=25mm,bottom=25mm} % Required layout
\usepackage{booktabs, longtable, pdflscape, fancyhdr}
\usepackage[skip=1ex]{caption}
% Getting landscape page and page number/footer on bottom of page (instead of to the left)
\fancypagestyle{mylandscape}{
\fancyhf{} %Clears the header/footer
\fancyfoot{% Footer
\makebox[\textwidth][r]{% Right
\rlap{\hspace{1.5cm}% Push out of margin by \footskip
\smash{% Remove vertical height
\raisebox{13.6cm}{% Raise vertically
\rotatebox{90}{\thepage}}}}}}% Rotate counter-clockwise
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% No header rule
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}% No footer rule
}
% For table headers with line breaks
\usepackage{fourier}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{makecell}
\renewcommand\theadalign{bc}
\renewcommand\theadfont{\bfseries}
\renewcommand\theadgape{\Gape[4pt]}
\renewcommand\cellgape{\Gape[4pt]}
\begin{document}
\begin{landscape}
\pagestyle{mylandscape}
\begin{center}
\scriptsize
\begin{longtable}[c]{@{}cccccccccccccccc@{}}
\caption{\textbf{Caption heading.} Some caption.}
\label{tab:table1}\
\toprule
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Method}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Sample ID}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Statistics}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{A long\ header}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Another\ statistic}}&
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{More\ statistics}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Number of\ something}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Number of\ something else}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Number of\ something similar}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Number of\ unique\ something}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Number of\ specific\ stuff here}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Interesting\ stuff about\ something}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{LaTeX \ is hard}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{ButI\ cool}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Sampling\ day}} \* \midrule
\endfirsthead
%
\multicolumn{16}{c}%
{{\bfseries Table \thetable\ continued from previous page}} \
\toprule
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Method}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Sample ID}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Statistics}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{A long\ header}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Another\ statistic}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{More\ statistics}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Number of\ something}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Number of\ something else}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Number of\ something similar}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Number of\ unique\ something}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Number of\ specific\ stuff here}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Interesting\ stuff about\ something}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{LaTeX \ is hard}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{ButI\ cool}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\thead{Sampling\ day}} \* \midrule
\endhead
%
\bottomrule
\endfoot
%
\endlastfoot
%
METHOD 1 & 1-D0-VO-L-3 & 60 & 0,5 & 1,57 & 1116,23 & 911 & 467 & 421 & 291 & 98 & 52 & Freshwater & VO & 0 \
METHOD 1 & 1-D0-VO-L-T1-1 & 49 & 0,4 & 1,37 & 766,17 & 891 & 432 & 394 & 275 & 94 & 53 & Saltwater & VO & 0 \
METHOD 1 & 10-D0-MA-L-T1-2 & 58 & 0,48 & 1,51 & 757,45 & 868 & 451 & 405 & 278 & 98 & 58 & Saltwater & MA & 0 \
[…]
METHOD 4 & 39-D6-MA-VO-L-T2-1 & 17 & 0,14 & 1,01 & 1553,21 & 659 & 257 & 269 & 194 & 50 & 26 & Saltwater & MA-VO & 6 \
METHOD 4 & 40-D6-MA-VO-L-T2-2 & 17 & 0,14 & 1,01 & 2181,26 & 595 & 231 & 242 & 172 & 44 & 27 & Saltwater & MA-VO & 6 \
METHOD 4 & 9-D6-VO-L-1 & 108 & 0,89 & 1,61 & 781,27 & 1080 & 677 & 503 & 338 & 167 & 82 & Freshwater & VO & 6 \* \bottomrule
\end{longtable}
\end{center}
\end{landscape}
\end{document}
As you can see from the first two pages, I have just gotten the table within the page frame, but I would very much like to move it a bit to the left so that there is a bit of whitespace on each side of it. After hours on hours Googling for a solution, I've come across several similar questions on this discussion forum, e.g.:
- Using \setlengthLTleft{-2cm}
- \begin{adjustwidth}{-2cm}{}{…}\end{adjustwidth}
- \begingroup with \setlength
- \setlength\LTcapwidth{\textwidth}
- [\makebox\textwidth][c]{\includegraphics[width=1.2\textwidth]{image}} (Although I suppose this is for figures and not tables)
I have tried to implement all of these (plus some others I could not find back to), unfortunately without any luck. The table does not seem to want to change position no matter what. Therefore, I was hoping that someone might be able to help me with my specific problem. Any help is very much appreciated!
center(it does not centre a longtable) and remove[c](as that sets\LTleft) and then set\setlength\LTleft{-3cm}before the table and it will move to the left – David Carlisle Jun 02 '21 at 16:04\addlinespacefrombooktabs) every fifth or so row. This can serve as a guide to the eye and helps to prevent the reader from unintentionally switching between rows of a wide table with many entries. – leandriis Jun 02 '21 at 18:13\multicolumncommand. This could also help in oder to save some more space. – leandriis Jun 02 '21 at 18:15