[Tex/LaTex] making to fit a table in LNCS page style

lncstables

This is my table skeleton

which I have problem to make it to fit in a LNCS style page, especially the headers (2 first rows) as they contain text and the other cells inside the table contain only one symbol per cell, e.g. "+".

Any help how I can solve it? I do not need for the lines, sure. I am using the booktabs package.

Edit 1:

Some of my code is:

\documentclass{llncs}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}


\usepackage{booktabs}
\newcommand{\ra}[1]{\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{#1}}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tabularx}

\usepackage{float}
\restylefloat{table}

\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{P}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{#1}}

\usepackage{float}
\floatstyle{plaintop}
\restylefloat{table}

\usepackage{multirow}
% end: for table

%begin: for landscape table
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{lscape}
%end: for landscape table

\usepackage{xspace}

\newcommand{\bs}{$\blacksquare$ \xspace}
\newcommand{\sr}{$\square$ \xspace}
\newcommand{\lt}{$\blacktriangleleft$ \xspace}



\begin{document}

\begin{landscape}
\begin{table}[]
%\centering
\small
\caption{Something which is moving my table too down}
\label{my-label}
\hskip-3.0cm \vskip-2.0cm \begin{tabular}{@{}p{4cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}p{0.6cm}@{}}
\toprule
{\color[HTML]{009901}{} } & \multicolumn{3}{l}{{\color[HTML]{009901}{{}} }} & \multicolumn{2}{l}{{\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} }} & {\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} } & {\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} } & \multicolumn{2}{l}{{\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} }} & \multicolumn{3}{l}{{\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} }} & \multicolumn{2}{l}{{\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} }} & \multicolumn{2}{l}{{\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} }} & {\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} } & {\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} } & {\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} } & {\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} } & {\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} } & {\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} } & {\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} } & {\color[HTML]{009901}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{}} } \\ \midrule

{\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} {\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{\textit{}}}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} {\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{\textit{}}}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} {\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{\textit{}}}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} & {\color[HTML]{009901} \textit{}} \\

\multicolumn{3}{l}{\color[HTML]{34696D}{} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } \\

Something1 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
Something2 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
\multicolumn{3}{l}{\color[HTML]{34696D}{} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } \\
Something3 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something4 & \bs & \sr & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs  & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \sr & ind &  & I & \sr & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt \\
 Something5 & \lt & \bs &  &  & \bs & \bs  & \lt & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & A & \bs &  & \lt & \lt & \lt \\
Something6 & \bs & \lt & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs &  & \bs & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & E & \lt & \sr & \bs & \lt & \lt \\
 something7 & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & E & \lt &  & \sr & \sr & \lt \\
 Something8 &  &  &  & \lt & \bs &  & \lt & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & E &  & \sr & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
\multicolumn{3}{l}{\color[HTML]{34696D}{\textbf{Anotherthing}} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } \\
Something9 & \lt & \lt & \lt &  & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs &  &  & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & A & \bs & \sr &  &  &  \\
Something10 & \sr & \sr & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs &  & \bs &  & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & pr &  & A & \bs & \sr & \lt & \lt & \lt \\
Something11 & \sr & \sr & \bs &  & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs &  & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & A & \lt & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs \\
Something12 & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs &  & \bs & \bs & \bs & \bs & \bs &  &  & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & ge &  & E & \bs & \sr & \lt & \bs & \lt \\
\multicolumn{3}{l}{\color[HTML]{34696D}{\textbf{Anotherthing2}} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } \\
 Something13 &\bs & \bs &  & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & I/E & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something14 & \bs & \sr & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & E & \lt & \sr & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something15 & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & E & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something16 & \bs & \bs & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & E & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something17 & \lt & \sr & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & E & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
\multicolumn{3}{l}{\color[HTML]{34696D}{\textbf{Anotherthing3}} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } & {\color[HTML]{34696D} } \\
 Something18 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
Something19 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something20 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something21 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something22 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\\bottomrule
\end{tabular}

\end{table}
\end{landscape}
\end{document}

Edit 2:

Changed header:

Edit 3:

This is what is looking to me using the LNCS class:

Except that the page before become landscape and is blank the table itself is narrowed in the "text size" of a vertical alignment! Actually, I changed these three things from your solution:

I am using the LNCS class which is required
I removed the \usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry} because it's "destroying" the standard margins of the page something that I am not allowed to touch 🙁
I removed the mathtools from \usepackage{mathtools,amssymb} because for some reasons I cannot get that!

Best Answer

Edit: I think, that the llncs document class is not the first concern. Table is huge, so it need to be deliberately designed (shrink) ...

For table below I did the following:

by defining colors by newcolor in document preamble the table code is significantly reduced
by defining new commands:\crb, \cit and mcit also reduce the table code
by changing column type p{0.6cm} to c the width of table becomm smaller
by eliminating of xspace the column become narrower and content is now in columns center.
color for rows, which contains text Another thing ... is determined by \rowcolor{...} and text put in \multicolumn{25}{l}{ ... text ...}
the float table is removed, for caption is used captionof{table}{...}. It works fine, so the manual positioning of table is not needed anymore
the code partial consider your new column heads design. Since \rotatebox doesn't work well in multirow cells, the column heads are only in one row.
for multiline cels in the first row is used \stackon macro from package stackengine

The complete code with only necessary packages is:

\documentclass{article}
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage{array,amsmath,amssymb}% amsmath instal amsfonts
    \usepackage{graphicx}
    \usepackage{lmodern}
    \usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry}% instead of [left=2cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]
    \usepackage{caption}
    \usepackage[table]{xcolor}
% my colors    
\definecolor[named]{mygreen}{HTML}{009901}
\definecolor[named]{myteal}{HTML}{34696D}
    \usepackage{booktabs}
    \usepackage{stackengine}
%begin: for landscape table
    \usepackage{pdflscape}
    \usepackage{lscape}
%end: for landscape table
\newcommand{\bs}{$\blacksquare$}
\newcommand{\sr}{$\square$}
\newcommand{\lt}{$\blacktriangleleft$}
%new commands    
\newcommand{\crb}[1]{\rotatebox[origin=l]{90}{\itshape\textcolor{mygreen}{#1}}}
\newcommand{\cit}[1]{\textit{\textcolor{mygreen}{#1}}}
\newcommand{\mcit}[2]{\multicolumn{#1}{c}{\textit{\textcolor{mygreen}{#2}}}}

    \begin{document}
\begin{landscape}
        \centering
        \small
\captionof{table}{Something which is moving my table too down}% Add 'table' caption
\label{my-label}
    \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.1}
\begin{tabular}{l *{24}{c}}
    \toprule   
 & \mcit{3}{\stackon{align}{horizontal}}
   & \mcit{2}{\stackon{align}{horizontal}}
     & 
       & 
         & \mcit{2}{\stackon{align}{horizontal}}
 & \mcit{3}{\stackon{align}{horizontal}}
   & \mcit{2}{\stackon{align}{horizontal}}
     & \mcit{2}{\stackon{align}{horizontal}}
       & & & & & & &  
       \\
 \cmidrule(lr){2-4}\cmidrule(lr){5-6}\cmidrule(lr){9-10}%
 \cmidrule(lr){11-13}\cmidrule(lr){14-15}\cmidrule(lr){16-17}
 & \crb{vertical align}
   & \crb{align}
     & \crb{vertical}
       & \crb{vertical align}
         & \crb{vertical align}
           & \crb{vertical align}
 & \crb{vertical align}
   & \crb{vertical align}
     & \crb{vertical align}
       & \crb{vertical align}
         & \crb{vertical align}
           & \crb{vertical align}
 & \crb{vertical align}
   & \crb{vertical align}
     & \crb{vertical align}
       & \crb{vertical align}
         & \crb{vertical align}
           & \crb{vertical align}
 & \crb{vertical align}
   & \crb{vertical align}
     & \crb{vertical align}
       & \crb{vertical align}
         & \crb{vertical align}                                                
         \\
\rowcolor{myteal}
   \multicolumn{25}{l}{\color{white}\textbf{Another thing 3}} 
        \\
Something1 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
Something2 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
\rowcolor{myteal}
   \multicolumn{25}{l}{}                \\
Something3 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something4 & \bs & \sr & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs  & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \sr & ind &  & I & \sr & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt \\
 Something5 & \lt & \bs &  &  & \bs & \bs  & \lt & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & A & \bs &  & \lt & \lt & \lt \\
Something6 & \bs & \lt & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs &  & \bs & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & E & \lt & \sr & \bs & \lt & \lt \\
 something7 & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & E & \lt &  & \sr & \sr & \lt \\
 Something8 &  &  &  & \lt & \bs &  & \lt & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & E &  & \sr & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
\rowcolor{mygreen} 
   \multicolumn{25}{l}{\textbf{Another thing 1}}     \\
Something9 & \lt & \lt & \lt &  & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs &  &  & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & A & \bs & \sr &  &  & \\
Something10 & \sr & \sr & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs &  & \bs &  & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & pr &  & A & \bs & \sr & \lt & \lt & \lt \\
Something11 & \sr & \sr & \bs &  & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs &  & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & A & \lt & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs \\
Something12 & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs &  & \bs & \bs & \bs & \bs & \bs &  &  & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & ge &  & E & \bs & \sr & \lt & \bs & \lt \\
\rowcolor{mygreen}
   \multicolumn{25}{l}{\textbf{Another thing 2}}     \\
 Something13 &\bs & \bs &  & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & I/E & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something14 & \bs & \sr & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & E & \lt & \sr & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something15 & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & E & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something16 & \bs & \bs & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & E & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something17 & \lt & \sr & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & oo &  & E & \bs & \sr & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
\rowcolor{mygreen}
   \multicolumn{25}{l}{\textbf{Another thing 3}}     \\
 Something18 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
Something19 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something20 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something21 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
 Something22 & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt & \bs & \lt & \bs & \sr & \bs & \sr & \sr & \bs & ao &  & A & \sr & \lt & \bs & \bs & \lt \\
    \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{landscape}
    \end{document}

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