Adding more space between rows in a tabular environment which has matrices

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I am getting this on beamer using tabular:

As you can see, the matrices are too close to the middle line, and I would like to separate these matrices a little from it. Adding \\ \\ \hline \\ between the last cell of the first row and the first cell of the second row yields

I do consider this to be be too much space between the rows and the middle line. If I try to add \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5} before the tabular environment (as it is recommended here), it yields

and suddenly all matrices stretch big as well. I think this happens because the variable \arraystretch applies globally to both tabular and pmatrix. With the \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5} before the \begin{tabular}, I tried to reredefine this variable back to 1 before each \begin{pmatrix} and it neither worked.

Here's a MWE, with the \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5} before the tabular environment, which gives the last image:

\documentclass[spanish]{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usetheme{Copenhagen}
\usecolortheme{default}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{} % This deletes the index on top of each slide
\usefonttheme{default}
\newcommand\wider[2][3em]{%
\makebox[\linewidth][c]{%
  \begin{minipage}{\dimexpr\textwidth+#1\relax}
  \raggedright#2
  \end{minipage}%
  }%
}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
    \wider[3em]{\small
    \bgroup\setlength{\tabcolsep}{5pt}
    \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{2}
    \begin{tabular}{c|lll}
            \begin{minipage}{35pt}
            \centering base de $\mathsf{su}(2)$
            \end{minipage} &
            $E_{1}=\frac{1}{2}\begin{pmatrix}
            i & 0 \
            0 & -i
            \end{pmatrix}$ , &
            $E_{2}=\frac{1}{2}\begin{pmatrix}
            0 & i \
            i & 0
            \end{pmatrix}$ , &
            $E_{3}=\frac{1}{2}\begin{pmatrix}
            0 & -1 \
            1 & 0
            \end{pmatrix}.$
        \\hline
            \begin{minipage}{35pt}
            \centering base de $\mathsf{so}(3)$
            \end{minipage} &
            $F_1=\begin{pmatrix}
            0&0&0\
            0&0&-1\
            0&1&0
            \end{pmatrix},$ &
            $F_2=\begin{pmatrix}
            0&0&1\
            0&0&0\
            -1&0&0
            \end{pmatrix},$ &
            $F_3=\begin{pmatrix}
            0&-1&0\
            1&0&0\
            0&0&0
            \end{pmatrix}.$
    \end{tabular}
    \egroup
    }
\end{frame}
\end{document}

where I am using the \wider macro defined here to decrease lateral margins on the slide.

I would like to get then something like in the second image but with less space between the rows and the middle line. Any help will be appreciated :)

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 09 '21 at 19:24

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It is produced with MWE, which use the tabularray package and \small font size in matrices. Code is simple and quite short:

\documentclass[spanish]{beamer}
\usetheme{Copenhagen}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage{array,tabularray}
\NewColumnType{C}{>{\small $}X<{$}}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\setlength\arraycolsep{2pt}
\begin{tblr}{colspec={Q[c,m,4em] | C C C },
             colsep=3pt,
             rowsep=3pt,
             }
base de $su(2)$
    &   E_{1}=\frac{1}{2}
        \begin{pmatrix}
            i & 0 \
            0 & -i
            \end{pmatrix}, 
        &   E_{2}=\frac{1}{2}
            \begin{pmatrix}
            0 & i \
            i & 0
            \end{pmatrix}, 
        &   E_{3}=\frac{1}{2}
            \begin{pmatrix}
            0 & -1 \
            1 & 0
            \end{pmatrix}.      \

    \hline
base de $so(3)$
    &   F_1=\begin{pmatrix}
            0&0&0\
            0&0&-1\
            0&1&0
            \end{pmatrix},
    &   F_2=\begin{pmatrix}
            0&0&1\
            0&0&0\
            -1&0&0
            \end{pmatrix},
    &   F_3=\begin{pmatrix}
            0&-1&0\
            1&0&0\
            0&0&0
            \end{pmatrix}.
    \end{tblr}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '21 at 09:27

With {NiceTabular} of nicematrix and its key cell-space-limits.

\documentclass[spanish]{beamer}
\usetheme{Copenhagen}
\usecolortheme{default}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{}
\usefonttheme{default}
\usepackage{nicematrix}
\newcommand\wider[2][3em]{%
\makebox[\linewidth][c]{%
  \begin{minipage}{\dimexpr\textwidth+#1\relax}
  \raggedright#2
  \end{minipage}%
  }%
}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
    \wider[3em]{\small
    \bgroup\setlength{\tabcolsep}{5pt}
    \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{2}
    \begin{NiceTabular}{c|lll}[cell-space-limits=5pt]
            \begin{minipage}{35pt}
            \centering base de $\mathsf{su}(2)$
            \end{minipage} &
            $E_{1}=\frac{1}{2}\begin{pmatrix}
            i & 0 \
            0 & -i
            \end{pmatrix}$ , &
            $E_{2}=\frac{1}{2}\begin{pmatrix}
            0 & i \
            i & 0
            \end{pmatrix}$ , &
            $E_{3}=\frac{1}{2}\begin{pmatrix}
            0 & -1 \
            1 & 0
            \end{pmatrix}.$
        \\hline
            \begin{minipage}{35pt}
            \centering base de $\mathsf{so}(3)$
            \end{minipage} &
            $F_1=\begin{pmatrix}
            0&0&0\
            0&0&-1\
            0&1&0
            \end{pmatrix},$ &
            $F_2=\begin{pmatrix}
            0&0&1\
            0&0&0\
            -1&0&0
            \end{pmatrix},$ &
            $F_3=\begin{pmatrix}
            0&-1&0\
            1&0&0\
            0&0&0
            \end{pmatrix}.$
    \end{NiceTabular}
    \egroup
    }
\end{frame}
\end{document}

You need several compilations (because nicematrix uses PGF/Tikz nodes under the hood).

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 09 '21 at 18:18

Okey, I have just found a solution with the package cellspace. Since I cannot find an analogous solution on other questions here on TSE, I am posting the answer.

To add space between a the content of a cell and a \hline, the cellspace package requires you to add S before the c, l or c position parameter of tabular (as it is explained on its documentation), so for instance

\begin{tabular}{l l l p{3cm}}

has to be changed into

\begin{tabular}{Sl Sl Sl Sp{3cm}}

For extra space in the cells, the parameters \cellspacetoplimit and \cellspacebottomlimit may be modified with \setlength. In my particular case, I get with the code

\documentclass[spanish]{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usetheme{Copenhagen}
\usecolortheme{default}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{} % This deletes the index on top of each slide
\usefonttheme{default}
\usepackage{cellspace}
\newcommand\wider[2][3em]{%
\makebox[\linewidth][c]{%
  \begin{minipage}{\dimexpr\textwidth+#1\relax}
  \raggedright#2
  \end{minipage}%
  }%
}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
    \wider[3em]{\small
    \bgroup\setlength{\tabcolsep}{5pt}
    \setlength{\cellspacebottomlimit}{5pt}
    \setlength{\cellspacetoplimit}{5pt}
    \begin{tabular}{Sc | Sl Sl Sl}
            \begin{minipage}{35pt}
            \centering base de $\mathsf{su}(2)$
            \end{minipage} &
            $E_{1}=\frac{1}{2}\begin{pmatrix}
            i & 0 \
            0 & -i
            \end{pmatrix}$ , &
            $E_{2}=\frac{1}{2}\begin{pmatrix}
            0 & i \
            i & 0
            \end{pmatrix}$ , &
            $E_{3}=\frac{1}{2}\begin{pmatrix}
            0 & -1 \
            1 & 0
            \end{pmatrix}.$
        \\hline
            \begin{minipage}{35pt}
            \centering base de $\mathsf{so}(3)$
            \end{minipage} &
            $F_1=\begin{pmatrix}
            0&0&0\
            0&0&-1\
            0&1&0
            \end{pmatrix},$ &
            $F_2=\begin{pmatrix}
            0&0&1\
            0&0&0\
            -1&0&0
            \end{pmatrix},$ &
            $F_3=\begin{pmatrix}
            0&-1&0\
            1&0&0\
            0&0&0
            \end{pmatrix}.$
    \end{tabular}
    \egroup
    }
\end{frame}
\end{document}

Adding more space between rows in a tabular environment which has matrices

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