[Tex/LaTex] How to generate customized table in latex with beautiful style

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I have a table with function parameter list and its short description. However, I intend to create this table in latex with beautiful style. I looked into this community, but couldn't locate the desired template that I can use for my latex project. How can I achieve my desired table in latex ? Is there any way to make this happen? Any idea please?

I created this table in MS office; I want this table in latex:

How can I generate above table in latex? Thanks in advance 🙂

Edit :

Thanks for diabox package, I used its example latex code like this, but don't know how to add style on output table. Any idea ?

\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|} \hline
\backslashbox[2cm]{num}{alpha}
& A & B \\\hline
1 & A1 & B1 \\\hline
2 & A2 & B2 \\\hline
\end{tabular}

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Here's an improvement to your code. It still requires the X column type for the last column and makecell. I replaced slashbox with diagbox:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage[table, svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{array, tabularx, multirow, booktabs, diagbox}
\usepackage{makecell}
\setcellgapes{2pt}

\begin{document}

\noindent\setlength\extrarowheight{2pt}\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{|c|c| >{\arraybackslash}X|} \hline
\diagbox[width = 3.5cm, height =1.2cm]{Param. list}{\raisebox{-2ex}{Name}}
& Parameter & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Description} \\\hline
\hline
\multirow{3}*{Replicate Type} & Biological & Rain most of the day\\
\cline{2-3}
& Technical & Sunny with some clouds xxxx\\
\cline{2-3}
\hline
\multirow{5}*{Thresholds} & $T^{s}$ (Stringent) & Rain most of the day\\
\cline{2-3}
& $T^{w}$ (Weak)& Sunny with some clouds xxxx\\
\cline{2-3}
& $\gamma$ & A clear day with a lot of sunshine\\
\hline
\multirowcell{2}{Multiple Testing \\correction} & FDR & Some long text. Some long text. \\\hline
\multirowcell{3}{Multiple Overlap\\ ERs treatment} & Use most stringent peak & Rain most of the day\\
\cline{2-3}
& Use least stringent peak & Sunny with some clouds. some long text\\
\cline{2-3}
\hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Sorting Table Column

I have no doubt that datatool is the way to go here. However, it is possible to use the code from my answer to the sorting question to do this.

You need to define a new comparator that compares only the first column. This particular implementation wants something that has a top level expansion into a row. E.g., you can define a macro for each row.

\def\rowi  {C & foo & qwer \\}
\def\rowii {A & bar & asdf \\}
\def\rowiii{B & baz & zxcv \\}

The goal is to be able to write the following to get sorted rows.

\begin{tabular}{lll}
\toprule
Letters & Metasyntatic variables & Gibberish\\
\midrule
\sortfirstcol{\rowi\rowii\rowiii}
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}

In particular, the \sortfirstcol{\rowi\rowii\rowiii} should expand to the sorted rows. As with \sortalpha, \sortfirstcol is just a simple macro that expands \sort with the comparator \sort@firstcol as its first argument.

\newcommand*\sortfirstcol{\sort\sort@firstcol}

The comparator isn't extremely complicated, but it does need to extract the first column of each argument. For that, we use a helper macro. And in keeping with the spirit of the original answer, this version is expandable.

\def\sort@firstcol#1#2{%
    \expandafter\expandafter\expandafter
        \sort@fc@helper\expandafter#1#2#1#2%
}

\def\sort@fc@helper#1&#2\\#3&#4\\#5#6#7{%
    \ifnumcomp{\pdfstrcmp{#1}{#3}}<{0}
    {#7{#5}{#6}}% else
    {#7{#6}{#5}}%
}

The \expandafters are going to expand the first two arguments a single time. For example, if the comparator is "called" as \sort@firstcol{\rowi}{\rowii}{...}, then it will expand to

\sort@fc@helper C & foo & qwer \\A & bar & asdf \\\rowi\rowii{...}

and so #1 will be the tokens "C ", #3 will be "A ", #5 will be \rowi, #6 will be \rowii, and lastly #7 will be the {...} that is the continuation that gets passed to the comparator.

From here, it's identical to \sort@alpha: it compares #1 and #3, passing #5 and #6 to the continuation.

Lastly, due to the representation of the rows, the \sortend and \sortoutput macros should be set to just expand to their argument:

\newcommand*\sortoutput[1]{#1}
\newcommand*\sortend[1]{#1}

The following is a complete example using the above code and the code from the previous answer.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\makeatletter
% #1 - comparator
% #2 - token list to sort
\newcommand\sort[2]{%
        \ifstrempty{#2}
        {}% else
        {%
                \sort@begin#1{}#2\sort@s\sort@begin
        }%
}

% helpers
\def\sort@s{\sort@s}
\def\ifsort@s#1{%
        \ifx\sort@s#1%
                \expandafter\@firstoftwo
        \else
                \expandafter\@secondoftwo
        \fi
}

% #1 - comparator
% #2 - tokens processed so far
% #3 - smallest token so far
% #4 - rest of the list
\def\sort@begin#1#2#3#4\sort@begin{%
        \ifsort@s{#4}
        {%
                \sortend{#3}%
                \sort#1{#2}%
        }% else
        {%
                \sort@go#1{#2}{#3}#4\sort@go
        }%
}

%     #1 - comparator
% #2 - tokens processed so far
% #3 - smallest token so far
% #4 - token under consideration
% #5 - rest of the list
\def\sort@go#1#2#3#4#5\sort@go{%
        #1{#3}{#4}{\sort@output#1{#2}{#5}}%
}
% #1 - comparator
% #2 - tokens processed so far
% #3 - rest of the list
% #4 - smaller of the two tokens
% #5 - larger of the two tokens
\def\sort@output#1#2#3#4#5{%
        \ifsort@s{#3}
        {%
                \sortoutput{#4}%
                \sort#1{#2{#5}}%
        }% else
        {%
                \sort@begin#1{#2{#5}}{#4}#3\sort@begin
        }%
}

\def\sort@numlt#1#2#3{%
        \ifnumcomp{#1}<{#2}
        {#3{#1}{#2}}% else
        {#3{#2}{#1}}%
}

\def\sort@numgt#1#2#3{%
        \ifnumcomp{#1}>{#2}
        {#3{#1}{#2}}% else
        {#3{#2}{#1}}%
}

\def\sort@alpha#1#2#3{%
        \ifnumcomp{\pdfstrcmp{#1}{#2}}<{0}
        {#3{#1}{#2}}% else
        {#3{#2}{#1}}%
}

\def\sort@firstcol#1#2{%
    \expandafter\expandafter\expandafter
        \sort@fc@helper\expandafter#1#2#1#2%
}

\def\sort@fc@helper#1&#2\\#3&#4\\#5#6#7{%
    \ifnumcomp{\pdfstrcmp{#1}{#3}}<{0}
    {#7{#5}{#6}}% else
    {#7{#6}{#5}}%
}

\newcommand*\sortnumlt{\sort\sort@numlt}
\newcommand*\sortnumgt{\sort\sort@numgt}
\newcommand*\sortalpha{\sort\sort@alpha}
\newcommand*\sortfirstcol{\sort\sort@firstcol}
\makeatother

% Change these to change out the sort outputs.
\newcommand*\sortoutput[1]{#1}
\newcommand*\sortend[1]{#1}

\begin{document}

\def\rowi  {C & foo & qwer \\}
\def\rowii {A & bar & asdf \\}
\def\rowiii{B & baz & zxcv \\}

\begin{tabular}{lll}
\toprule
Letters & Metasyntatic variables & Gibberish\\
\midrule
\sortfirstcol{\rowi\rowii\rowiii}
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

Finally, I should point out that this representation (that is, rows as macros) isn't necessary. Due to the way \sort processes its arguments, one could easily write a comparator that allowed one to write the following.

\sortfirstcol{%
    {C & foo & qwer}%
    {A & bar & asdf}%
    {B & baz & zxcv}%
}
\def\sortoutput#1{#1\\}
\def\sortend#1{#1\\}

Perhaps I should have done that. The comparator would be slightly simpler.

Also, as implemented, a space at the beginning or end of the first column matters. One could probably deal with that too.

[Tex/LaTex] How to format table with long column head entries

Here's an example using your idea of putting the headers horizontally and connecting them to the columns with arrows:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\newcommand*{\hnode}[1]{\tikz[remember picture] \node (#1) {};}
% I am actually using a similar theme
% The space ``wasted'' is similar for PaloAlto though
\usetheme{PaloAlto}

\begin{document}
\frame
{
  \frametitle{Comparision of boost implemented graph classes}
  \begin{tabular}{l}
    %
    % Column Headers, first column is empts
    %
    compressed\_sparse\_row\_graph\hnode{H3}\\
    adjacency\_matrix\hnode{H2}\\
    adjacency\_list\hnode{H1}\\
    \\
  \end{tabular}
  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{X c c c}
    %
    & \hnode{C1}
    & \hnode{C2}
    & \hnode{C3}\\
    % Rows, I suspect I need about 10
    % Class               adjlist          adjmatrix     csrg
    \hline 
    AdjacencyGraph        & Yes            & No          & Yes \\
    Interface \#2         & Yes            & No          & Yes \\
    Interface \#3         & Yes            & No          & Yes \\
    Interface \#4         & Yes            & No          & Yes \\
    Interface \#5         & Yes            & No          & Yes \\
    Interface \#6         & Yes            & No          & Yes \\
    Interface \#7         & Yes            & No          & Yes \\
    Interface \#8         & Yes            & No          & Yes \\
    Interface \#9         & Yes            & No          & Yes \\
    % Rest omitted
  \end{tabularx}
\tikz[remember picture,overlay] \draw (H1)  [very thick, red,->] -| (C1);
\tikz[remember picture,overlay] \draw (H2)  [very thick, red,->] -| (C2);
\tikz[remember picture,overlay] \draw (H3)  [very thick, red,->] -| (C3);
}

\end{document}

It actually looks pretty good, if I may say so myself.

beamer slide

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