Possible Improvement of Code

Question

Code

Consider the following example:

\DocumentMetadata{}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin = 1.8cm]{geometry} % to avoid `overfull \hbox'
\usepackage{tabularray}
\begin{document}
\begin{tblr}{
  hline{1}   = {2-7}{solid},
  hline{2-Z} = {solid},
  vline{1}   = {2-7}{solid},
  vline{2-Z} = {solid}
}
  & \SetCell{c, m, 1.75cm}
    Utilstræk-keligt
  & \SetCell{c, m, 1.75cm}
    Tilstræk-keligt
  & \SetCell{c, m, 1.75cm}
    Jævnt
  & \SetCell{c, m, 1.75cm}
    Godt
  & \SetCell{c, m, 1.75cm}
    Frem-ragende \
    \SetCell[r = 1]{h, m, 5.9cm}
    Samarbejdet har fungeret og eventuelle problemer er blevet løst
  &
  &
  &
  &
  &  \
    \SetCell[r = 1]{h, m, 5.9cm}
    Tiden er blevet disponeret fornuftigt
  &
  &
  &
  &
  &  \
\end{tblr}%
\end{document}

The tabularray package is fairly new to me.

Question

Can the code somehow be improved? (I know that this is a subjective question.)

Unrelated to your code, but your table would look more professional without all the vertical lines. — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Feb 28 '24 at 13:41
@samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz I totally agree; the problem is that some of my students have a really head time focusing, so marked cells for everything helps them to some extend. Thanks for you suggestion, none the less. — Svend Tveskæg, Feb 28 '24 at 16:22

samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz · Accepted Answer · 2024-02-28T20:42:26.623

Instead of specifying the alignment for each cell individually, you could do this globally in the table settings
Instead of hard coding the width of the cells, I would let tabularray do this for you. If you use X columns, tabularray will automatically distribute them evenly and with something like X[4] you can make the first column wider than the other columns.

\DocumentMetadata{}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin = 1.8cm]{geometry} % to avoid `overfull \hbox'
\usepackage{tabularray}
\begin{document}
\begin{tblr}{
  cells={m,c},
  colspec={X[4,l,h]XXXXX},
  hline{1}   = {2-7}{solid},
  hline{2-Z} = {solid},
  vline{1}   = {2-7}{solid},
  vline{2-Z} = {solid}
}
  & Utilstræk-keligt
  & Tilstræk-keligt
  & Jævnt
  & Godt
  & Frem-ragende \
  Samarbejdet har fungeret og eventuelle problemer er blevet løst
  &
  &
  &
  &
  &  \
  Tiden er blevet disponeret fornuftigt
  &
  &
  &
  &
  &  \
\end{tblr}%
\end{document}

Thank you very much! I can see from your screenshot that the last column is slightly wider than the other four -- can I somehow make all five exactly the same width? (I'm not near a computer at the moment so I can't try myself.) — Svend Tveskæg, Feb 28 '24 at 16:21
@SvendTveskæg Fixed! I forgot one X in the columns declaration, sorry! — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Feb 28 '24 at 20:43

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 29 '24 at 13:13

For information, here is a way to create that table with {NiceTabular} of nicematrix.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin = 1.8cm]{geometry} 
\usepackage{nicematrix}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\begin{document}
\begin{NiceTabular}{V[l]{7cm}*{5}{X[c]}}[hvlines,corners=NW,cell-space-limits=3pt]
  & Utilstræk-keligt
  & Tilstræk-keligt
  & Jævnt
  & Godt
  & Frem-ragende \
  Samarbejdet har fungeret og eventuelle problemer er blevet løst \
  Tiden er blevet disponeret fornuftigt \
\end{NiceTabular}
\end{document}

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

Possible Improvement of Code

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