[Tex/LaTex] How to set the width of a column using multirow command with tabularx, sidewaystable and longtable

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I'd like to ask for a very big favor:
I need to do a long table (more than 1 page) which needs to be in 90 degrees (sidewaystable) and well, I need to stablish the width of the columns while using multirow.

At the moment I can only do multirow thingy and sidewaystable, but I need to modify the width of the columns, this problem comes when I use multirow .

So, as you can see in picture 1, the text on the first column should be centered for the length of the 10 rows of the last column. It actually is, but I want it to say:

Combate de\\incendios\\forestales (look picture 2)

Then, the same thing happens with the second column, where "Evaluación del sector" happens to use more space than the one I need.

The other thing is that I also would like to set the width of the columns of "N", so it doesn't use that much of space…

And, the last thing, this is just 1/10 of the complete table, I mean, there are more than 100 rows in the "Peligro" column, and the first column "Combate de incendios forestales" goes in the center of all of them… So, I need to use the longtable package, which I tried, but it didn't work (It is very possible that I did not do it good, so if you can tell me where should I put the command..)

My code:

\begin{sidewaystable}
  \centering
  \caption{Add caption}
    \begin{tabularx}{\columnwidth}{p{1.5cm}p{2cm}cX}
    \toprule
    Procedimiento & Actividad & N     & Peligro \\
    \midrule
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{\multirow{10}[4]{*}{Combate de incendios forestales}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\multirow{5}[2]{*}{Evaluación del sector}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{1} & No tomar en cuenta la información técnica o de la situación del incendio. \\
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{2} & No considerar la geografía del sector  \\
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{3} & Omitir algunas variables meteorológicas \\
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{4} & Que la información anterior no llegue en el momento necesario  \\
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{5} & La existencia de fallas en los sistemas de recepción de los datos anteriormente nombrados \\
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\multirow{5}[2]{*}{Activar la alarma}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{6} & Que no sea realmente una emergencia \\
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{7} & Que el personal no esté bien capacitados en cuanto al modo de actuar en una emergencia \\
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{8} & Que la alarma no funcione \\
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{9} & No tener redundancias en el sistema por si funciona solo en base a electricidad y se corta la luz \\
    \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{10} & No tener material disponible para ir a combatir el incendio \\
    \bottomrule

    \end{tabularx}%
  \label{tab:addlabel}%
\end{sidewaystable}

And.. the last thing so you can have a simple idea.. I'd like it to be just like:

Of course, with the LaTeX tables style, the lines in this picture are just to give you an idea…

Finally, I'm using TexMAKER on Windows 7.

Is out there anyone that can help me?

Id be very grateful!!!
Thanks!

Best Answer

Here is a solution, using the makecell package, which allows for line breaks in cells. I took the opportunity to simplify your code and automate the numbers in the third column. For a tabularx spreading across pages, I loaded the ltablex package, which brings the functionalities of long table to tabularx.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}%
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{fourier}

\usepackage{geometry}

\usepackage{array, mathtools}
\usepackage{ltablex, multirow, makecell, booktabs, caption}
\usepackage{rotating}

\begin{document}

\begin{sidewaystable}
  \centering\newcounter{rowctr}\setcounter{rowctr}{0}
  \begin{tabularx}{\columnwidth}{cc >{\stepcounter{rowctr}\therowctr}cX}
    \caption{Add caption}\\
    \toprule
    Procedimiento & Actividad & \multicolumn{1}{c}{N} & Peligro \\
    \midrule
    \endfirsthead
    \multicolumn{4}{c}{\footnotesize Table \thetable\enspace (continued)}\\
    \toprule
    Procedimiento & Actividad & \multicolumn{1}{c}{N} & Peligro \\
    \midrule
    \endhead
    \bottomrule
    \multicolumn{4}{r}{\footnotesize To be continued}
    \endfoot
    \bottomrule
    \endlastfoot
    \multirowcell{10}{Combate de & & & \\ incendios \\forestales} & \multirowcell{5}{Evaluación \\ del sector} & & No tomar en cuenta la información técnica o de la situación del incendio. \\
                                 & & & No considerar la geografía del sector \\
                                 & & & Omitir algunas variables meteorológicas \\
                                 & & & Que la información anterior no llegue en el momento necesario \\
                                 & & & La existencia de fallas en los sistemas de recepción de los datos anteriormente nombrados \\
    \cmidrule{2-4}
                                 & \multirowcell{5}{Activar la & & \\ alarma} & & Que no sea realmente una emergencia \\
                                 & & & Que el personal no esté bien capacitados en cuanto al modo de actuar en una emergencia \\
                                 & & & Que la alarma no funcione \\
                                 & & & No tener redundancias en el sistema por si funciona solo en base a electricidad y se corta la luz \\
                                 & & & No tener material disponible para ir a combatir el incendio \\
    \bottomrule

  \end{tabularx}%
  \label{tab:addlabel}%
A\end{sidewaystable}

\end{document}

As for your last request, the code can be modified to obtain what you want, but you can't use booktabs for that (vertical rules wouldn't cross horizontal rules), and it wouldn't look very professional…

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It is possible without using multirow. In a lot of cases you can use a nested tabular. ltablex is a combination of longtable and tabularx:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{ltablex}
\renewcommand\tabularxcolumn[1]{m{#1}}   
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\noindent
\rule{\linewidth}{2pt}

\noindent
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\caption{Title}
\tabularnewline\hline
\bfseries Long long  long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long text  
  &
   \begin{tabular}{m{\dimexpr0.5\linewidth-2\tabcolsep}|m{\dimexpr0.5\linewidth-\tabcolsep}}  
      Long long  long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long text
     & 11111  \\\hline
      Long long long long long long long long long long long long long long text
     & 11111  \\\hline 
      Long long long long long long long long long long long long long long text
     & 11111
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\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Combining tabularx, sidewaystable and longtable

Well, the first step is to remove a lot of the extraneous material in your code. The idea is to create a minimal working example; that is, one that demonstrates your problem without anything that does not contribute to that problem. For example, all of the biblatex stuff, which doesn't affect your problem at all.

The next step is to read all your documentation. E.g., you state that the first line of the table does not repeat. For this, you want \endhead; preceding material will be repeated on all pages of the table.

Then, you really want to see the sizes of the preceding pages and the following pages, so you can be sure that your landscape pages are really landscape. So let's use \usepackage{lipsum} to give us some context before and after the longtable.

Here's what I came up with (assuming you're happy faking the effect of tabularx as suggested in the comments):

 \documentclass[a4paper,bibliography=totoc,toc=listof,chapterentrydots=on,captions=tableheading,headings=small]{scrbook}

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum

\begin{landscape}
\begin{longtable}[tbp]{p{0.15\textwidth}p{0.55\textwidth}p{.15\textwidth}p{.15\textwidth}}
\toprule
\textbf{1}      &   \textbf{2}              &   \textbf{3}  &   \textbf{4}\\
\midrule
\endhead
Author1         &   In the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit
of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said,
Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the
light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the
darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness
he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the
first day. 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the
midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the
waters.   &   - &   - \\
Author2         &   And God made the firmament, and divided
the waters which were under the firmament from the waters
which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God
called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning
were the second day. 9 And God said, Let the waters under
the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the
dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry
land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called
he Seas: and God saw that it was good.  &   - \\
Author2         &   And God made the firmament, and divided
the waters which were under the firmament from the waters
which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God
called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning
were the second day. 9 And God said, Let the waters under
the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the
dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry
land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called
he Seas: and God saw that it was good.  &   - \\
Author2         &   And God made the firmament, and divided
the waters which were under the firmament from the waters
which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God
called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning
were the second day. 9 And God said, Let the waters under
the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the
dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry
land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called
he Seas: and God saw that it was good.  &   - \\
Author3         &   -   &   - &   - \\
Author4         &   -   &   - &   - \\
Author5     &   -   &   - &   - \\
\bottomrule
\caption{A Caption}
\end{longtable}
\end{landscape}

\lipsum

\end{document}

That gives you something like this:

Which I think is what you're looking for.

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