Spacing in a multirow table

Question

I am trying to use a multi-row table such that I can have some extra spacing before and after the table's entire header and before and after the first element of the rows. The screenshot is enclosed:

A working example of the same is as follows:

\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l|l|l}
\hline
\textbf{A} & \textbf{B} & \textbf{C} \\
\hline
\multirow{17}{0.11\textwidth}{A} & B & \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}c@{}}C \\ D\\ E \\ \end{tabular}\\ 
\cline{2-3} 
& X & \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}l@{}} C \\ D\\ E \\ \end{tabular}  \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

Apologies for my poor knowledge of LaTeX.

One way is to use \makegapedcells defined in the makecell package, the another ways is use \cellspace package and define spaces for \cellspacetoplimit and \cellspacebottomlimit. Well, your knowing of LaTeX will grow with their use :-), so happy TeXing! — Zarko, Dec 27 '20 at 21:35

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 27 '20 at 21:40

I think you're looking to insert typographic struts in various locations. See the following for an example of how this may be done. The screeshot shows the tabular without struts on the left and with struts on the right.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multirow}
% see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/50355/5001
\newcommand\Tstrut{\rule{0pt}{2.6ex}}       % Top strut
\newcommand\Bstrut{\rule[-1.2ex]{0pt}{0pt}} % Bottom strut
\newcommand\TBstrut{\Tstrut\Bstrut}         % Top-and-Bottom strut
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
% first, without struts
\begin{tabular}[t]{p{0.11\textwidth}|l|l}
\hline
\textbf{A} & \textbf{B} & \textbf{C} \
\hline
\multirow{3}{}{A} & B & \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}c@{}}C \ D\ E \ \end{tabular}\ 
\cline{2-3} 
& X & \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}l@{}} C \ D\ E \ \end{tabular}  \ \hline
\end{tabular}
\qquad
% second, with* struts
\begin{tabular}[t]{p{0.11\textwidth}|l|l}
\hline
\textbf{A} & \textbf{B} & \textbf{C}\TBstrut \ % <-- note the "\TBstrut" directive
\hline
\multirow{3}{*}{A} & B & \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}c@{}}C\Tstrut \ D\ E\Bstrut \ \end{tabular}\ 
\cline{2-3} 
& X & \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}l@{}} C\Tstrut \ D\ E\Bstrut \ \end{tabular}  \ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Thanks, Mico. It worked perfectly. – Qureshi Dec 27 '20 at 22:43 — Qureshi, Dec 27 '20 at 22:43

Zarko · Answer 2 · 2020-12-27T22:28:53.740

Now I'm not sure, what is your problem. However, based on my comment, in the first I understood that you looking for something like this:

Above table example is produced by:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{makecell, multirow}
\begin{document}
    \begin{table}[ht]
    \setcellgapes{5pt}
    \makegapedcells
    \renewcommand\multirowsetup{\centering} % if you like to have horizontal 
                                            % centered multirow cells contains
\begin{tabular}{l|l|l}
    \hline
\textbf{A} & \textbf{B} & \textbf{C}    \
    \hline
\multirow{5}{0.11\textwidth}{A} 
        & B & \makecell[l]{C \ D\ E } \
    \cline{2-3}
        & X & \makecell[l]{C \ D\ E } \ 
    \hline
\end{tabular}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

Spacing in a multirow table

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