Align the top of two tables horizontally (side-by-side with minipage)

Question

I'm using \minipage to put two tables side by side. But when the two tables are not of equal length, the shorter of the two is vertically centered with respect to the other. I would like both tables to be aligned horizontally at the top (i.e. so that I could draw an imaginary straight flat line from (1) through (2)).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\begin{document}
    \begin{table}[h]
        \begin{minipage}{0.5\linewidth}
            \begin{exe}
                \ex
                    \begin{tabular}[t]{l l}
                        ich & `I'\\
                        du & `you'\\
                        er & `he'\\
                    \end{tabular}
            \end{exe}
        \end{minipage}
        \begin{minipage}{0.5\linewidth}
            \begin{exe}
                \ex
                    \begin{tabular}[t]{l l}
                        Schiff & `ship'\\
                        Haus & `house'\\
                        Mund & `mouth'\\
                        Auto & `car'\\
                        Buch & `book'\\
                        Stuhl & `chair'\\
                    \end{tabular}
            \end{exe}
        \end{minipage}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

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Use [t] as option for the minipage environment. – Mar 10 '13 at 18:11 — , Mar 10 '13 at 18:11

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 12 '17 at 07:48

As Marc van Dongen says in a comment, add [t] as an option to both minipage environments:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\begin{document}
    \begin{table}[h]
        \begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\linewidth}
            \begin{exe}
                \ex
                    \begin{tabular}[t]{l l}
                        ich & `I'\\
                        du & `you'\\
                        er & `he'\\
                    \end{tabular}
            \end{exe}
        \end{minipage}
        \begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\linewidth}
            \begin{exe}
                \ex
                    \begin{tabular}[t]{l l}
                        Schiff & `ship'\\
                        Haus & `house'\\
                        Mund & `mouth'\\
                        Auto & `car'\\
                        Buch & `book'\\
                        Stuhl & `chair'\\
                    \end{tabular}
            \end{exe}
        \end{minipage}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

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Please don't add [h] to all tables. You usually don't need them and they make LaTeX layout harder. — vy32, Aug 21 '17 at 12:22

Align the top of two tables horizontally (side-by-side with minipage)

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