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I have this kind of table Table.

I would like to make the 2nd column text occupy the same as that from the 1st column. That way, the line spacing between the lines needs to be bigger..

Aurea Iñurritegui Marroquin
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    how is the reader supposed to read this as a table if there is no row structure? – David Carlisle Nov 11 '21 at 08:10
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    a hand sketch of the finished product would help – js bibra Nov 11 '21 at 08:22
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    Welcome to TeX.SE. There's an even number of data rows in the first column and an odd number of data rows in the second. What's the (visual) correspondence between the contents of columns 1 and 2? – Mico Nov 11 '21 at 08:31
  • The reader is not supossed to read this a table where every line corresponds to 1 case. That is the main reason why I want items not to be aligned, as in the image I am sending. I perhaps wrongly omitted the explanation of the table, to focus in the problem I had. – Aurea Iñurritegui Marroquin Nov 11 '21 at 09:07
  • The idea of the table is to show the different values a variable has taken inside a reserch study with hundreds of cases of study. As an example for you to understand, in those 2 columns you see what I want tovisualize is that with I will have the following cases of study: dp36_alpha20 , dp36_alpha30 , dp36_alpha37.5 , dp36_alpha45 , dp50_20 and so on... – Aurea Iñurritegui Marroquin Nov 11 '21 at 09:09
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    Probably, such a stable is not the ideal way to present that kind of information. Maybe you can use a list instead. – leandriis Nov 11 '21 at 09:40
  • that is you are using a table for non tabular data, not using a table might be a better solution. – David Carlisle Nov 11 '21 at 11:48

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As already mentioned @leandriis in his comment, using table in your way can be (is) misleading. I would look for some other way to present values of variables considered in your study cases. One example can be:

\usepackage[skip=1ex]{caption}

\begin{document}
    \begin{table}[ht]
\caption{\dots}
\label{tab:values-1}
    \centering
    \begin{tabular}{rl}
    \toprule
variables   &   \multicolumn{1}{c}{selected values}

                                                \
    \midrule
$d_p$ [mm]  &   36, 43, 50, 75, 100, 200, 400   \
$\alpha$ [\si{\degree}]
            &   20, 30, 30.7, 45                \
    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

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However, table as you like to have, can be simple achieve by tabularray package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\UseTblrLibrary{booktabs}
\usepackage[skip=1ex]{caption}

\begin{document}
    \begin{table}[ht]
\caption{\dots}
\label{tab:values-1}
    \centering
    \begin{tblr}{colspec={Q[l,wd=4em]l},
                 vspan=even}
    \toprule
$d_p$ [mm]  &   $\alpha$ [\si{\degree}] \
    \midrule
\SetCell[r=4]{l}

36\par

43\par

50\par

75\par

100\par

200\par

400         &   20      \
            &   30      \
            &   30.7    \
            &   45      \
    \bottomrule
    \end{tblr}
\end{table}
\end{document}

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Zarko
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This seems similar to Identical spacing of inference lines with Bussproofs.

Because there is no 1:1 correspondence between the rows in the first and the second column, this is a vertical rather than a horizontal alignment. It can be achieved in plain TeX

\def\cell#1{\hbox to 5pc{\strut $#1$\hfil}}
\leftline{\valign{&\cell{#}\cr
\omit\hrule&d_p\;[mm]&\omit\hrule&36&43&50&75&100&200&400&\omit\hrule\cr
\omit\hrule&\alpha\;[{}^\circ]&\omit\hrule&
  \multispan{7}{\cell{20}\vfil\cell{30}\vfil\cell{37.5}\vfil\cell{45}}&\omit\hrule\cr
}}

but it is probably also possible with LaTeX.

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In general, place the values in the second column (the one with fewer values) inside the \multispan{7}, separated by \vfil:

\multispan{7}{\cell{...}\vfil\cell{...}\vfil...\vfil\cell{...}}

And the number after the \multispan is the number of values in the first column (the one with most values).

Heiko Theißen
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