[Tex/LaTex] How prevent the side-by-side tables from overlapping

minipagesidebysidetables

I have two long tables, that I want side-by-side. When I use country codes they are OK, but as I want to use country names instead, they get too wide and overlap. As far as I can see, there is still plenty of space left on the page for the tables to be side by side without overlapping. I don't need to make the tables look very nice (yet), I just need them to be readable.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,times]{article}
\begin{document}    
\begin{table}
    \centering
    \caption{blablabla}
    \resizebox{0.6\textwidth}{!}{


     \begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
      \centering
    \begin{tabular}{lc|lc}
    \multicolumn{2}{l}{OLS} & \multicolumn{2}{r}{OLS}\tabularnewline
    \hline 
    \multicolumn{4}{c}{Negative}\tabularnewline
    \hline 
    A very very long country name & -0.00 & A very very long country name & -0.00\tabularnewline
    A very very long country name & -0.00 & A very very long country name & -0.00\tabularnewline

    \end{tabular}
    \end{minipage} 

    \hfill


    \begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
     \centering

    \begin{tabular}{lc|lc}
    \multicolumn{2}{l}{OLS} & \multicolumn{2}{r}{OLS}\tabularnewline
    \hline 
    \multicolumn{4}{c}{Negative}\tabularnewline
    \hline 
    A very very long country name & -1.00 & A very very long country name & -0.00\tabularnewline
    A very very long country name & -0.4 & A very very long country name & -0.01\tabularnewline

    \end{tabular}
    \end{minipage}} 
    \end{table}
\end{document}

Best Answer

The tables are overlapping because you squeeze them into minipages of fixed width. Maybe the following snippet helps you to find a better solution. Notice, however, that I had to guess a document class and a preamble.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
Your original minipages were not wide enough to fit all the stuff you put there.
However, were also using a \texttt{tabular} environment, which prevented the
lines from breaking. Since you were using the \texttt{minipage} environment, I'm
wondering if you want the text to break. In that case consider
\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\caption{blablabla}
\begin{tabular}{cc}
 \begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
  \centering
\begin{tabular}{p{2.5cm}c|p{2.5cm}c}
\multicolumn{2}{l}{OLS} & \multicolumn{2}{r}{OLS}\tabularnewline
\hline 
\multicolumn{4}{c}{Negative}\tabularnewline
\hline 
A very very long country name & -0.00 & A very very long country name & -0.00\tabularnewline
A very very long country name & -0.00 & A very very long country name & -0.00\tabularnewline
\end{tabular}
\end{minipage} 
&
\begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
 \centering
\begin{tabular}{p{2.5cm}c|p{2.5cm}c}
\multicolumn{2}{l}{OLS} & \multicolumn{2}{r}{OLS}\tabularnewline
\hline 
\multicolumn{4}{c}{Negative}\tabularnewline
\hline 
A very very long country name & -1.00 & A very very long country name & -0.00\tabularnewline
A very very long country name & -0.4 & A very very long country name & -0.01\tabularnewline
\end{tabular}
\end{minipage}%} 
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

If you really want to use resizebox, recall first that
\verb|\resizebox{0.6\textwidth}{!}{stuff}| scales stuff to 0.6$\times$textwidth,
which is probably not what you wanted. I'm assuming you wanted to use
\verb|\scalebox| instead. A somewhat more appropriate usage of \verb|\resizebox|
yields
\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\caption{blablabla}
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
\begin{tabular}{m{16cm}m{16cm}}
 \begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth} 
  \centering
\begin{tabular}{p{6cm}c|p{6cm}c}
\multicolumn{2}{l}{OLS} & \multicolumn{2}{r}{OLS}\tabularnewline
\hline 
\multicolumn{4}{c}{Negative}\tabularnewline
\hline 
A very very long country name & -0.00 & A very very long country name & -0.00\tabularnewline
A very very long country name & -0.00 & A very very long country name & -0.00\tabularnewline
\end{tabular}
\end{minipage} 
& 
\begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
 \centering
\begin{tabular}{p{6cm}c|p{6cm}c}
\multicolumn{2}{l}{OLS} & \multicolumn{2}{r}{OLS}\tabularnewline
\hline 
\multicolumn{4}{c}{Negative}\tabularnewline
\hline 
A very very long country name & -1.00 & A very very long country name & -0.00\tabularnewline
A very very long country name & -0.4 & A very very long country name & -0.01\tabularnewline
\end{tabular}
\end{minipage}% 
\end{tabular}%
}
\end{table}

However, for the sake of readability I'd recommend not use this method. 

\end{document}

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There are a number of problems here:

The open line between the minipages results in a new paragraph. Comment it out or remove it.
The label command refers to the previous section or chapter and not the table as intended. Put everything inside a table environment and use \caption command to activate the correct labels.
Your tables are too wide for the environments. You can cheat a little bit by putting a wide box inside a zero sized box.

Here is and example:

\begin{table}
\centering
\makebox[0pt][c]{\parbox{1.2\textwidth}{%
    \begin{minipage}[b]{0.32\hsize}\centering
        \begin{tabular}{ | c | c |}
           \hline
           \textbf{Feat. id} & \textbf{F-Measure} \\ \hline
           0 & 0.4286 \\ \hline
           17 & 0.3973 \\ \hline
        \end{tabular}
        \caption{xxx}
        \label{tab:singlebest}
    \end{minipage}
    \hfill
    \begin{minipage}[b]{0.32\hsize}\centering
        \begin{tabular}{ | c | c |}
           \hline
           \textbf{Feat. id} & \textbf{F-Measure} \\ \hline
           25 & 0.4494 \\ \hline
           11 & 0.4457 \\ \hline
        \end{tabular}
        \caption{xxxx}
        \label{tab:twobest}
    \end{minipage}
    \hfill
    \begin{minipage}[b]{0.32\hsize}\centering
        \begin{tabular}{ | c | c |}
           \hline
           \textbf{Feat. id} & \textbf{F-Measure} \\ \hline
           18 & 0.4595 \\ \hline
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First of all: Your initial example shouldn't work - there must not be an empty line between two minipage environments when you want them to be put next to each other. But leaving that out, this works fine:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.44 \textwidth}
   \includegraphics[scale=0.55]{1.pdf} 
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.47\textwidth}
   \includegraphics[scale=0.55]{2.pdf}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

To your actual question: When going from \includegraphics to \input (e.g. when having a SVG exported with Inkscape to PDF+TeX), you have three options:

\scalebox{0.55}{\input{mypicture.tex}} to scale the image by some factor (this is closest to what you were doing above).
\resizebox{0.44\textwidth}{!}{\input{mypicture.tex}} to resize the picture to some fixed width.
\resizebox{!}{0.3\textheight}{\input{mypicture.tex}} to resize the picture to some fixed height.

I would always suggest to use option 2, i.e. to specify the width of the inputed part, because you can easily synchronize that with the width of your minipage environments. Actually, \textwidth inside a minipage will always be the full size of the minipage. Example (without \input but the principle of resizebox is the same):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.44\textwidth}
    \resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{example-image-a}}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.47\textwidth}
    \resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{example-image-b}}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

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