[Tex/LaTex] How to center a table in LaTeX

horizontal alignmenttables

I want to put a centered table below the title, instead i get a right handed alignment.
I tried \begin{center} instead of \begin{table}, i get the same result.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{lineno}


\begin{document}

\title{Title:\\ more title}
\maketitle

\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\small
\setlength\tabcolsep{3pt}
\setlength\extrarowheight{2pt}

\begin{tabular}{llll}
\textsc{column 1}   & \textsc{column 2}              & \textsc{column 3}& 
\textsc{column 4}        \\ \hline
something here      & something more here            & something here a     & something here           \\
something here      & something here                 & Rsomething more here & something here           \\
something here      & something here /something here & something here n     & something more here      \\
something more here & something more here            & something here       & something more here more \\
something here      & something here                 &                      & something here
\end{tabular}

\end{table}

\end{document}

Best Answer

The table is too large for the available text width, see Christian Hupfer's comment.

A suggestion:

X columns of tabularx are similar to p columns, but use the available space automatically without explicit dimension. Only the table gets a width.
\midrule of package booktabs for a nicer rule with proper vertical white space around.
\RaggedRight of package ragged2e to get a smoother \raggedright by allowing hyphenation.
\hangindent=1em\hangafter1\relax for indentation of the follow-up lines in the cells' first paragraph.
\slash instead of / for a slash with break point.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{lineno}


\begin{document}

\title{Title:\\ more title}
\maketitle

\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\small
\setlength\tabcolsep{3pt}
\setlength\extrarowheight{2pt}

\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{*{4}{>{\hangindent=1em\hangafter=1\RaggedRight}X}}
\textsc{column 1}   & \textsc{column 2}              & \textsc{column 3}&
\textsc{column 4}        \\ \midrule
something here      & something more here            & something here a     & something here           \\
something here      & something here                 & Rsomething more here & something here           \\
something here      & something here\slash something here & something here  & something more here      \\
something more here & something more here            & something here       & something more here more \\
something here      & something here                 &                      & something here
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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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!

[Tex/LaTex] tabu package – gaps in vertical lines

One way is to shift up the skip prior to the mid-height \tabucline with a \\[-1pt]. See below for 2nd approach.

%Dokumentclass
\documentclass[landscape]{letter}

%Packages
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\usepackage[utf8]     {inputenc}
\usepackage           {multirow}
\usepackage           {tabu}

%Formatting
\pagestyle{empty} %Remove numbering

\begin{document}
  \begin{tabu}{ |[1pt] l | l l | l | l |[1pt] }
                                                                                                                 \tabucline[1 pt]{1-5}
    \multicolumn{2}{ |[1pt] l }{ } & \multicolumn{3}{ |[1pt] l |[1pt]}{ }                                     \\                       \hline
    &                              & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l |     }{ } & \multicolumn{2}{  l |[1pt] }{ }   \\                       \hline
 y   &                              & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l |     }{ } & \multicolumn{2}{  l |[1pt] }{ }   \\[-1pt]   \tabucline[1 pt]{3-5} 
\hline
 x   &                              & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l |     }{ } &                                 & \\                       \hline
    &                              & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l |     }{ } &                                 & \\                       \hline
    &                              & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l |     }{ } &                                 & \\                       \hline
    &                              & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l |     }{ } &                                 & \\ \tabucline[1 pt]{1-5}
  \end{tabu}
\end{document}

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Alternately, if you want the thin line to bisect the thick line, then the approach: \\[-1pt] \tabucline[1 pt]{3-5}\\[-12.5pt]\hline works.

%Dokumentclass
\documentclass[landscape]{letter}

%Packages
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\usepackage[utf8]     {inputenc}
\usepackage           {multirow}
\usepackage           {tabu}

%Formatting
\pagestyle{empty} %Remove numbering

\begin{document}
  \begin{tabu}{ |[1pt] l | l l | l | l |[1pt] }
                                                                                                                 \tabucline[1 pt]{1-5}
    \multicolumn{2}{ |[1pt] l }{ } & \multicolumn{3}{ |[1pt] l |[1pt]}{ }                                     \\                       \hline
    &                              & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l |     }{ } & \multicolumn{2}{  l |[1pt] }{ }   \\                       \hline
 y   &                              & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l |     }{ } & \multicolumn{2}{  l |[1pt] }{ }   \\[-1pt]   \tabucline[1 pt]{3-5}\\[-12.5pt]
\hline
 x   &                              & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l |     }{ } &                                 & \\                       \hline
    &                              & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l |     }{ } &                                 & \\                       \hline
    &                              & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l |     }{ } &                                 & \\                       \hline
    &                              & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l |     }{ } &                                 & \\ \tabucline[1 pt]{1-5}
  \end{tabu}
\end{document}

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