{multicolumn} is for questions concerning the formatting of table cells that span several columns.
Tabular environments support this feature via \multicolumn{columns to span}{formatting of the cell}{content}.
Questions tagged [multicolumn]
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Using multicolumn in latex
I want to create a table like this using Latex
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| sets |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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mahmood
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! Misplaced \omit. \multispan ->\omit
I have tried to see if my error is the same as any of the numerous other threads on this forum with the same content, however I cannot seem to find any that match my problem.
When trying to typeset the following code, I am faced with a ! Misplaced…
wilsnunn
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LaTeX Last column is too large compared to other multicolumns
\begin{table}[H]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c}
\hline
\multirow{2}{*}{\textbf{Metal}} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{Initial temperature, $\pm 0.01 (\ang{-}C)$}} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{Final temperature, $\pm 0.01 (\ang{-}C)$}} \\…
Rob
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LaTeX Layouting
I want to layout a LaTeX document with following conditions:
Let the base element of my document be a box.
A box contains a content which must not be split by page breaks, and in a multi columned environment, it should not be split by a column…
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Lamport's rule for \multicolumn not valid?
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{r|r@{\,}l|}
1&2&300\\
10&-2&X\\
\multicolumn{2}{r@{\,}}{2}&\multicolumn{1}{l}{X}
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
According to Lamport, the columns formatting consists of three parts:
r| + r@{\,}…
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How to organize correctly a multicolumn table
I am having some troubles with a multicolumn table. The table should look like this sample inside a word doc:
But the template that i am using is in LaTeX and when i compile the code that i made i receive this:
This is the code, I think the…
João Zago
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Multicolumn with balanced cell width
I have created a table with uneven mergers of cells:
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
& A & B & C & D & E & F \\…
Artemij Keidan
- 275
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Table formatting with multicolumn
I am struggling with multicolumn. What I want is equal spacing between the three columns. Without multicolumn, there is not enough space because of the Panel rows. With multicolumn, it just Looks bad. Does anyone know how I could handle this? I…
MANGo 92
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Table: problem with multicolumn
I am writing a paper and I have the following issue:
I would like to observe the title "ultimate analysis" centered and above the columns that contain the values of C, H, N, S and O.
Similar for the title "proximate analysis", centered and above…
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Multicolumn and multirow tables (missed v. separators)
I do know that vertical separators in the tables are not best practice, but in some rare cases I need them.
As you can see from the code bellow the separator between cells 'Switch fcsw1' and 'Switch fcsw1' is missed. How could it…
gray380
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Multicolumn within ifthenelse becomes misaligned
I want to write a command that will produce a table, but can also add one multicolumn with an optional argument's contents in it. I tried to do this using ifthenelse to check if the optional argument is empty, but something about having the brackets…
corndog
- 35
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three column table
Please I'm trying to create a multicolumn table but I'm not getting anywhere. I want two columns, female and male, with informal, formal and total under as the picture shows. This is my code, but the output is not what I want.…
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hierarchical table
Can someone please help me create this table? I know it requires \multicolumns and I've looked at other threads, but I'm still unable to set up the columns as they are here. I'm sorry my knowledge of latex is only basic. Thanks.
Here's what I've…
user151731
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Drawing table multicolumn in Latex
I have a problem for drawing a table in latex. I want to have a table with 13 columns at the end. I did the biggest thing of the work. I have this following table :
But I have a problem for the first line. I want to put Historical (1850-2005) in…
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Problem with multicolumn widths
so I have this problem that I have a multicolumn setup and I have two columns. I specified the first column to be left centered and the second column to be 10.5 cm long. I don't understand why the second column in all three sections are not aligned…
Philip
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