[Tex/LaTex] Can’t generate vertical space between tables

spacingtables

I realize this is probably a really simple issue but I'm a complete beginner.

I am auto-generating code very similar to the LaTeX code below. However no matter what I do I can't get space between the two tables – vspace just doesn't seem to work.

However, if I have a figure after these tables vspace then works fine between the tables and the figure.

Does anyone have any advice please? I added

\usepackage{parskip}

today as I don't want paragraph formatting.

THANKS a lot for any help,

Tom.

%% WriteReport.m method created this file.
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage{avant}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry    {verbose,tmargin=2cm,bmargin=2cm,lmargin=2cm,rmargin=2cm,headheight=1cm,headsep=1cm,footskip=1cm}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage[bookmarks=true,bookmarksnumbered=false,bookmarksopen=false,
breaklinks=false,pdfborder={0 0 1},backref=false,colorlinks=false]
{hyperref}
\hypersetup{pdftitle={MyOutput},
pdfauthor={Autogenerated by MyOutput}}
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
\usepackage{color}
\lhead{MyOutput}
\begin{document}
\section{\textsf{Section title}}
\begin{tabular}{|r|l|}
   \hline
   one & two \\
   \hline
   one & two \\
   \hline
   one & two \\
   \hline
   one & two \\
   \hline
   one & two \\
   \hline
\end{tabular}
\newline
\vspace*{1 cm}
\begin{tabular}{|r|l|}
   \hline
   three & four \\
   \hline
   three & four \\
   \hline
   three & four \\
   \hline
   three & four \\
   \hline
   three & four \\
   \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Best Answer

You need a \newline after the \vspace as well.

\newline
\vspace*{1 cm}
\newline

instead.

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[Tex/LaTex] Vertical space between tables vspace won’t work

table is a floating environment, meaning that LaTeX can move it around, e.g. to avoid getting a large blank space at the end of page, if the table doesn't fit (for more details on how that works, see How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?). For that reason, adding a \vspace between two table environments doesn't really make sense, as the they can move away from that space.

If the two tables should be placed just after one another, you can place both tabulars in the same table environment, and add the \vspace between them, inside the table. See code below.

Some other comments:

Be careful when using one-letter macro names, several of these are defined already, see Short names for macros
Note that the \it, \bf, etc. font macros are deprecated because they do not use the new font selection scheme introduced with LaTeX2e. Please use {\itshape ..}, {\bfseries ..} or \textit{..}, \textbf{..} instead. See Does it matter if I use \textit or \it, \bfseries or \bf, etc. and Will two-letter font style commands (\bf, \it, …) ever be resurrected in LaTeX? for more information.
Generally, I don't think you should use just h! as a float specifier. That limits where LaTeX can place the floats.
If you ask egreg, he'll tell you that both \left( ... \right) and \ensuremath are usually bad ideas. See "(" or "\left(" parentheses? (and linked questions) for some discussion about the former, and When not to use \ensuremath for math macro? about the latter.
As the table environment (and all other environments, I think) form a group, it is not really necessary to use \bgroup/\egroup to limit the effect of the \arraystretch I think.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,reqno]{amsart}

\newcommand{\bb}[1]{\textbf{#1}}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\caption{MCMC mixing results for the MH within Gibbs sampler} % title of Table
\centering % used for centering table
\def\arraystretch{2}
\begin{tabular}{c c c} % centered columns (4 columns)
     \bb{Response}: & \bb{ESS} (\%) & \bb{Acceptance rate} (\%) \\ \hline
     \bb{TST} & 100.0 & 52.90 \\
     \bb{WASO} & 99.90 & 56.68  \\
     \bb{N2} & 98.56 & 50.23 \\
     \bb{R} & 99.33 & 63.19  \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

\vspace{10mm}

\caption{MCMC mixing results for the strongest and weakest models for benchmark $g$ for response \bb{TST}.} % title of Table
\begin{tabular}{c c c} % centered columns (4 columns)
     \bb{Model}: & \bb{ESS} (\%) & \bb{Acceptance rate} (\%) \\ \hline
     Strongest & 87.04 & 69.3 \\
     Weakest & 6.74 & 10.9 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{mix2} % is used to refer this table in the text
\end{table}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Tabular and grid typesetting

Using David's suggestion, I used

\let\oldtabular\tabular
\let\oldendtabular\endtabular
\def\tabular{\setlength{\lineskiplimit}{0pt}\oldtabular}
\def\endtabular{\oldendtabular\setlength{\lineskiplimit}{-10pt}}

which more or less seems to fix the problem. If anyone has a more elegant/better solution, please let me know!

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