tables
How do you create a comparison table like this?
In particular, the slanted labels that save space, and the circles / half-filled circles. These kinds of tables seem fairly common — is there a special package for creating tables like this?
Also, I think there already is a question about exactly the same kind of table, but unfortunately it had a title as vague as this one, so I wasn't able to find it.
This looks like an easy job for siunitx (aligning of the numbers) and booktabs (design of table, avoiding vertical rules, see the manual of booktabs).
Also, take a look at the siunitx manual and the siunitx tag as this package has a lot of options and possibilities to not only typeset numbers in tables.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{siunitx,booktabs}
\begin{document}
\sisetup{table-format=1.3}
\begin{tabular}{l S S S[table-format=1.5] }
\toprule
Threshold & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Method 1} \\ \cmidrule{2-4}
& {$P$} & {$Z$} & {$W$} \\ \midrule
Value 1 & 0.125 & 2.635 & 3.14159 \\
Value 2 & 1.571 & 0.123 & 2.71828 \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
Do you mean something like below? Make sure to define your own commands. Like this, you can still switch to something different later on
% arara: lualatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{xits-Math}
\newcommand*{\noPrior}{\ensuremath{\mdlgwhtcircle}}
\newcommand*{\quarterPrior}{\ensuremath{\circleurquadblack}}
\newcommand*{\halfPrior}{\ensuremath{\circlerighthalfblack}}
\newcommand*{\threeQuarterPrior}{\ensuremath{\blackcircleulquadwhite}}
\newcommand*{\fullPrior}{\ensuremath{\mdlgblkcircle}}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{lr}
\toprule
Symbol & Meaning\\
\midrule
\noPrior & \SI{0}{\percent}\\
\quarterPrior & \SI{25}{\percent}\\
\halfPrior & \SI{50}{\percent}\\
\threeQuarterPrior & \SI{75}{\percent}\\
\fullPrior & \SI{100}{\percent}\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
Here is an idea for TikZ:
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand*{\priority}[1]{\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.15]%
\draw (0,0) circle (1);
\fill[fill opacity=0.5,fill=blue] (0,0) -- (90:1) arc (90:90-#1*3.6:1) -- cycle;
\end{tikzpicture}}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{lr}
\toprule
Symbol & Meaning\\
\midrule
\priority{0} & \SI{0}{\percent}\\
\priority{15} & \SI{15}{\percent}\\
\priority{33} & \SI{33}{\percent}\\
\priority{75} & \SI{75}{\percent}\\
\priority{100} & \SI{100}{\percent}\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Here's a partial reconstruction of the table.
Some comments.
\rotto handle rotating the slanted labels. It uses\rotatebox[origin=br]{-60}to rotate the label -60 degrees about the bottom right corner. That is placed inside an\hboxthat's1emwide with infinite shrinkability on the left so that the label protrudes out the left side of the box.\LEFTcircleand\CIRCLEfrom thewasysympackage over and over, so I defined\featurewhich takes a single argument (in this case, 0, 1, or 2) and produces the appropriate symbol. (Based on the footnotes, I probably should have called it\propertyinstead.)arraypackage, I created a new column typeG(for group) that corresponds to three centered columns with no intercolumn space. I also defined\fwhich takes three digits and produces the three features (properties) for a group. (I probably should have gone with\gto stick with group rather than\ffor features.)arrayspecifier!to insert an extra\kern1embetween those columns.\ex(which was to stand for example, but on reflection, something related to scheme would have been better) which takes 9 arguments. The first 3 correspond to the scheme, marks, and example. The remaining 6 expect 3 digits to pass to\f. Finally, the 10th braced group is unbraced using\@firstofoneand then passed to\f. I admit, that's kind of a hack, but it makes using\exeasier.threeparttableconsists of a caption, the tabular, and the tablenotes below.booktabs's\toprule,\midrule, and\bottomruleto typeset the horizontal rules. (This looks much better than\hline.)\hfils. I think it would look better to not center the notes.Schemeis indented slightly for some reason in your example. I didn't understand the point of that, so I didn't do it. Adding\quad(or some other horizontal spacing command) could reproduce that.-in that column withNoneor maybe just leave it blank. I'd probably also replace the-in the main columns with an en dash. I just think it looks better. Conveniently, you only have to replace-with--in\featureto change it everywhere, including the table notes.Some metacomments.
symbols-a4document (runtexdoc symbols-a4).threeparttablewhich I'd never used before so I took a stab at it.) Posting a minimal example demonstrating what you've tried and asking about particular elements you are stuck on works best. E.g., "How do I rotate the text in a cell of a table?"