I have a rather wide table for which I have a designated page in landscape mode. The rest of the document is in portrait mode. Currently, the first row of the table begins at the very top of the page and ends somewhere in the middle. I'd like the table to be vertically centered though. How can I achieve this? I'm using the tabular environment.
[Tex/LaTex] Center table on landscape page
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Similar like my answer to How to wrap text around landscape page I would use \afterpage from the afterpage package to place the table at the next page of where it was declared. Here a non-floating replacement of table is used instead, e.g. the \captionof{table}{...} is used (capt-of or caption) package.
One issue are potential other tables which should be flushed beforehand. Otherwise the non-floating table replacement might appear earlier.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{capt-of}% or use the larger `caption` package
\usepackage{lipsum}% dummy text
\begin{document}
\lipsum % Text before
\afterpage{%
\clearpage% Flush earlier floats (otherwise order might not be correct)
\thispagestyle{empty}% empty page style (?)
\begin{landscape}% Landscape page
\centering % Center table
\begin{tabular}{llll}
A & B & C & D \\
\end{tabular}
\captionof{table}{Table caption}% Add 'table' caption
\end{landscape}
\clearpage% Flush page
}
\lipsum % Text after
\end{document}
Instead of using table*, you could try tabular*. The *-form takes an additional <width> mandatory argument
\begin{tabular*}{<width>}{<column specification>}
which specifies the width of the tabular environment; in the regular form the width is determined by LaTeX from the contents of the tabular environment. Now, this might only help if you actually want to widen a table/tabular to a specific width. But, in your case you may need to shrink the table/tabular width. For this, there may be some tricks you can employ. However, some of these may be dependent on the journal requirements/specifications. Also, optimal solutions/choice might depend on the degree that your table extends outside the text block. I list a couple here by means of an example:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
Original\par
\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|c}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}
\bigskip Individual column separation modified via \verb|@{\hspace{<width>}}|\par
\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|@{\hspace{2pt}}c@{\hspace{2pt}}}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}
\bigskip Global column separation modified via \verb|\renewcommand{\tabcolsep}{<width>}|\par
{\renewcommand{\tabcolsep}{2pt}
\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|c}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}}
\bigskip Resized horizontally (keeping aspectratio) via \verb|\resizebox{<width>}{<height>}|\par
\resizebox{20em}{!}{\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|c}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}}
\bigskip Original\par
\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|c}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
On a more semantic side of things, here are some suggestions to your code:
- The use of
\begin{center}...\end{center}is antiquated in LaTeX, and often produces unwanted vertical spacing even though this might not be the case with your tables. Rather use\centering. Thel2tabupackage gives some mention of this, plus other references to obsolete code for LaTeX2e. - Tabular columns specification can be simplified if you have many similarly-formatted columns. For this, using
*{15}{c}is equivalent toccccccccccccccc(as in the example above). Of course, there is a limit to this use, since*{2}{c}is less useful thancc. However, readibility is at play here as well as ease of subsequent modification.
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OK, I got it. Initially, I only had
I had to place the table in a
tableenvironment, i.e.