After having examined multiple and different solutions for introducing large and complex tables in my document, and after many excellent and valuable suggestion from this StackExchange, the best arrangement I found is to compile a pdf file and insert it in the document.
My tables are large and, as they are written, do not fit on a portrait page. However, my document is portrait oriented. If I had to introduce the tables in the document directly I would have to make several changes (in fact the preamble of the tables files are different from the preamble of the document. However, I have hundreds of tables and it would not be practical. introducing a pdf allows me to keep the characteristics of the tables.
Oddly enough (at least for a newbie as I am), when I insert the pdf in the document the tables are nicely arranged on a portrait page (they did not fit on that orientation on the original file, neither they did if I placed any single table directly in the document) as in 
I actually expected a landscape page inserted in a portrait document, but actually I do like this solution.
The question is: would it be possible to have more than one table on a single page (now the space seems to be available) instead than one table per page?
Here is a MWE for the landscape tables:
% This file was converted to LaTeX by Writer2LaTeX ver. 1.6.1
% see http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net for more info
\documentclass[a4paper,landscape]{article}
%\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsfonts,textcomp}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage[style=vancouver,citestyle=numeric-comp,sorting=none,isbn=false,url=false,eprint=false, doi=false]{biblatex}
\usepackage{hhline}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{pdftex, colorlinks=true, linkcolor=blue, citecolor=blue, filecolor=blue, urlcolor=blue, pdftitle=, pdfauthor=Fabio Cesare Campanile, pdfsubject=, pdfkeywords=}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\arraybslash{\let\\\@arraycr}
\makeatother
% Page layout (geometry)
\setlength\voffset{-1in}
\setlength\hoffset{-1in}
\setlength\topmargin{2cm}
\setlength\oddsidemargin{2cm}
\setlength\textheight{17.001cm}
\setlength\textwidth{25.201cm}
\setlength\footskip{0.0cm}
\setlength\headheight{0cm}
\setlength\headsep{0cm}
% Footnote rule
\setlength{\skip\footins}{0.119cm}
\renewcommand\footnoterule{\vspace*{-0.018cm}\setlength\leftskip{0pt}\setlength\rightskip{0pt plus 1fil}\noindent\textcolor{black}{\rule{0.25\columnwidth}{0.018cm}}\vspace*{0.101cm}}
% Pages styles
\makeatletter
\newcommand\ps@Standard{
\renewcommand\@oddhead{}
\renewcommand\@evenhead{}
\renewcommand\@oddfoot{}
\renewcommand\@evenfoot{}
\renewcommand\thepage{\arabic{page}}
}
\makeatother
\pagestyle{Standard}
\setlength\tabcolsep{1mm}
\renewcommand\arraystretch{1.3}
\title{}
\author{Fabio Cesare Campanile}
\date{2022-01-16}
\addbibresource{LGBiBiblio.bib}
\begin{document}
\begin{flushleft}
\begin{tabular}{|m{3.6139998cm}|m{7.1060004cm}|m{7.0880003cm}m{7.09cm}|}
\hline
\multicolumn{4}{|m{25.498001cm}|}{\textbf{Studio:} \fullcite{reynvo2014a}
}\\\hline
\textbf{Disegno dello studio}
\textbf{Livello di evidenza} &
\textbf{Dettagli dello studio/limitazione} &
\multicolumn{1}{m{7.0880003cm}|}{\textbf{Caratteristiche dei pazienti}} &
\textbf{Interventi}\\\hline
\textbf{Disegno dello studio:}
~
\textbf{metanalisi}
~
&
\textbf{Paesi:} Non applicabile
\textbf{Centri:} Non applicabile
\textbf{Setting: }Non applicabile\textbf{ }
\textbf{Finanziamento}: Nessuno
\textbf{Tasso di dropout: }Non applicabile
\textbf{Limitazioni}: {indirectness (scarsa trasferibilità diretta dei risultati)}
\textbf{Critical appraisal: }AMSTAR II
~
&
\multicolumn{1}{m{7.0880003cm}|}{Pazienti affetti da laparocele o ernia primaria (25 studi con 3868 pazienti)
~
\textbf{Ricerca bibliografica}: fino a novembre 2012
~
\textbf{Criteri di inclusione: tecnica }laparoscopica, stud includenti almeno 30 pazienti, follow up almeno di 12 mesi, lingia inglese, francese, spagnolo, tedesco
\textbf{Criteri di esclusione:} pazienti cirrotici, piccole ernie ventrali
~
} &
Tecnica lapaoroscopica IPOM di confronto fissaggio con tacks vs. fissaggio con sutura\\\hline
\textbf{Note}: &
\multicolumn{3}{m{21.683998cm}|}{~
}\\\hline
\textbf{Obiettivi} &
{}- recidiva erniaria &
\multicolumn{2}{m{14.378cm}|}{\textbf{Risultati: }
tacks + sutures: 2,5\% (95\% CI, 1,3-3,7\%)
~
}\\\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{flushleft}
\bigskip
\begin{flushleft}
\begin{tabular}{|m{3.6139998cm}|m{7.1060004cm}|m{7.0880003cm}m{7.09cm}|}
\hline
\multicolumn{4}{|m{25.498001cm}|}{\textbf{Studio:} \fullcite{sajid2013b}
}\\\hline
\textbf{Disegno dello studio}
\textbf{Livello di evidenza} &
\textbf{Dettagli dello studio/limitazione} &
\multicolumn{1}{m{7.0880003cm}|}{\textbf{Caratteristiche dei pazienti}} &
\textbf{Interventi}\\\hline
\textbf{Disegno dello studio:}
metanalisi &
\textbf{Paesi:} Non applicabile
\textbf{Centri:} Non applicabile
\textbf{Setting: }Non applicabile\textbf{ }
\textbf{Finanziamento}: Nessuno
\textbf{Tasso di dropout: }\textcolor[rgb]{0.13333334,0.13333334,0.13333334}{rischio di BIAS (follow up incompleto, case series), eterogeneità, imprecisione (bassa numerosità campionaria)}
\textbf{Critical appraisal: }AMSTAR II &
\multicolumn{1}{m{7.0880003cm}|}{Pazienti affetti da laparocele o ernia primaria
2 RTC, 2 Non RCT
207 pazienti
~
\textbf{Ricerca bibliografica}: fino a luglio 2012
~
\textbf{Criteri di inclusione: }RCT e studi osservazionali
\textbf{Criteri di esclusione:} } &
Tecnica lapaoroscopica IPOM di confronto fissaggio con tacks vs. fissaggio con sutura\\\hline
\textbf{Note}: &
\multicolumn{3}{m{21.683998cm}|}{~
}\\\hline
\textbf{Obiettivi} &
{}-durata tempo operatorio
{}-dolore post-operatorio
{}-complicanze post-operatorie
{}-durata della degenza
{}-recidiva erniaria &
\multicolumn{2}{m{14.378cm}|}{\textbf{Risultati: }
{}-Tack vs. sutura
{}-tempo operatorio: MD, -23.65; 95\% CI, -31.06, -16.25; p {\textless}0.00001
{}-dolore post-operatorio a 4-6 settimane: MD, -0.69; 95\% CI, -1.16, -0.23; p{\textless}0.004
{}-complicanze peri-operatorie: OR, 1.22; 95\% CI, 0.51, 2.92; p 0,65
{}-durata della degenza: MD, 0.07; 95\% CI, -0.14, 1.37, p 0,53
{}-recidiva erniaria OR, 1.54; 95\% CI, 0.38, 6.27; p 0,54
~
}\\\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{flushleft}
\end{document}
and for the portrait document:
\documentclass[chapterprefix=true]{scrbook}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{pdfpages}%per inserire pdf multipagina
\usepackage[italian]{babel}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage[style=vancouver,citestyle=numeric-comp,sorting=none,isbn=false,url=false,eprint=false, doi=false]{biblatex}
\definecolor{chaptergrey}{rgb}{0.7,0.7,0.7}
\let\raggedchapter\raggedleft
\addtokomafont{disposition}{\normalfont}
%\setkomafont{element}{commands}
\setkomafont{title}{\color{cyan}\LARGE}
\setkomafont{chapter}{\color{cyan}\LARGE}
\setkomafont{subtitle}{\color{black}}
\renewcommand*{\chapterformat}{%
\scalebox{3}{\color{cyan}\thechapter}%
}
\begin{document}
\author{}
\subject{Linea Guida}
\title{\textbf{Il trattamento laparoscopico di laparocele e ernie ventrali}}
\subtitle{}
\titlehead{}
\date{Gennaio 2022}
\frontmatter
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\chapter{one}
\section{Schede studi quesito 2D}
\includepdf[pages=-,pagecommand={\thispagestyle{plain}}]{MWEtabelle.pdf}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Changing the
\includepdfcommand toyields the following result.
As you can see, both tables are included, but the result does not look very nice. You have no control over the spacing and the tables are inserted on a new page, leaving the prior page almost blank.
I would recommend to compile each table with the
standalonedocument class. The resulting PDF will just contain the content without any margins. The code for the first table is:Make sure to remove the
geometrycode.In your main document you can do something like
The result is
In my opinion, this approach is much better and gives you more control over the placement.
Note Your table code contains a lot of unnecessary packages and command definitions, which are probably created by
Writer2LaTeX. I would recommend, that you write the tables inLaTeXyourself, giving you a lot more control. You might have a look at thetabularraypackage, which has a very flexible interface for creating tables.Edit
If you want to use the first solution, you can also try
with a
scalevalue provided. That could fix your overlapping page numbers.