[Tex/LaTex] Big Table in latex

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Could you please helping me to draw a nice big tables

like this one , I don't know how to mange the big table in LateX

Many thanks

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You can use the ltxtable latexpackage

This package is a wrapper around tabularx (that allows you to not specify the length of a column - for you the 4th one -) and longtable

By default the first line is repeated under all pages.

the main problem with this package is that the table needs to be written in another file. But you can do that like this:

\newcommand{\oldinput}[1]{\input{#1}}
\renewcommand{\input}[1]{#1}
\LTXtable{\linewidth}{%
  \begin{longtable}{cccXc}
  \end{longtable}
}
\renewcommand{\input}[1]{\oldinput{#1}}

If this pice of code is a little long you can set it into a command or environment (with the \newEnviron command provided by environ package) or \newenvironment and replace the LTXtable bracked with \bgroup and \egroup

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[Tex/LaTex] Big table with cells spanning more than one page

It is not possible to split a table cell across pages. In cases like this a list is the best thing to use.

\begin{itemize}
\item[30, 2] <long sequence of numbers>
\item[11, 3] <another long sequence>
...
\end{itemize}

You can use enumitem to modify the aspect of the list. The rules are not necessary (and actually ugly).

[Tex/LaTex] How to manage big and smaller tables in LaTeX

You can modify the horizontal width of a table using a number of choices:

Manual inter-column separation using, for example,

\begin{tabular}{@{10}{@{\hspace{<len>}}c@{\hspace{<len>}}}} % Inter-column gap of <len>

Modify commands like \tabcolsep or \extracolsep to adjust the inter-column separation.
Resizing the entire table to fit within the line width via the graphicx package \resize{<h-len>}{<v-len>}{<stuff>} command:

\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{%
  \begin{tabular}{...}
    ...
  \end{tabular}%
}%

Use fixed-width tabulars. This could be using the tabular* environment, or using tabularx from the tabularx package. The latter provides a stretchable column specifier X. However, none of these will shrink the table to fit into \linewidth if the table is wider than \linewidth. For example:

\begin{tabular*}{\linewidth}{<column specs>}
  ...
\end{tabular*}

\usepackage{tabularx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/tabularx
...
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{<column specs>}
  ...
\end{tabularx}

Use a different font, say \small. However, this gives the entire table a different look/feel compared to the rest of the document. Not recommended.

Read more about this on the fixed-width tables entry on the UK TeX FAQ.

For adjusting the vertical length of your table, you can try one of the following:

Adjust the vertical length using the \resizebox{<h-len>}{<v-len>}{<stuff>} command in a similar fashion than described above. This time, set <h-len>=! to maintain aspect ratio.
Modifying the \arraystretch parameter using something like \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{0.8}
Specify a manual line-skip by using \\[<len>] instead of just \\ to produce new tabular lines. This gives you some control over how big the skip between rows are.

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