[Tex/LaTex] Modify global size of booktabs table

booktabstableswidth

Here is the table I am trying to make:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tabularx, booktabs}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering


\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{lll}

 \toprule
Conditions & Items test corrects & Items test incorrects \\
 \midrule
 Non-adjacents & Fa\textunderscore Sol\textunderscore Ré\textunderscore (O\textunderscore P\textunderscore Q\textunderscore ) & *Do\#\textunderscore Sol\#\textunderscore Si (S\textunderscore R\textunderscore T) \\
 & Sol\#\textunderscore Do\#\textunderscore Si\textunderscore  (R\textunderscore S\textunderscore T) & *Ré\textunderscore Sol\textunderscore Fa (Q\textunderscore P\textunderscore O) \\
 & \textunderscore Do\textunderscore Fa\#\textunderscore Ré\# (\textunderscore u\textunderscore v\textunderscore w) & *La\textunderscore Mi\textunderscore La\# (\textunderscore y\textunderscore x\textunderscore z) \\
 & \textunderscore Mi\textunderscore La\textunderscore La\# (\textunderscore x\textunderscore y\textunderscore z) & *Ré\#\textunderscore Fa\#\textunderscore Do (\textunderscore w\textunderscore v\textunderscore u) \\
Adjacents &  Ré.Ré\#.Fa.Do.Sol.Fa\# (QwOuPv) & *Si.La.Sol\#.La\#.Do\#.Mi (TyRzSx) \\ 
 & Ré.La\#.Fa.Mi.Sol.La (QzOxPy) & *Si.Fa\#.Sol\#.Ré\#.Do\#.Do (TvRwSu) \\ 
 & Si.Ré\#.Sol\#.Do.Do\#.Fa\# (TwRuSv) & *Ré.La.Fa.La\#.Sol.Mi (QyOzPx) \\ 
 & Si.La\#.Sol\#.Mi.Do\#.La (TzRxSy) & *Ré.Fa\#.Fa.Ré\#.Sol.Do QvOwPu) \\ 
 \bottomrule 

\end{tabularx}

\end{table}

\lipsum

\end{document}

The result is as follow:

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I tried to reduce the width of my table with \footnotesize but the text in the table is still a bit beyond the right margin:

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Question:

Is there a way to force all the table to stay align with the text with booktabs ?

Best Answer

You don't want tabularx, in my opinion.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newcommand{\sh}{$\sharp$}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]

\begin{table}[htp]
\centering
\footnotesize

\begin{tabular}{lll}
 \toprule
Conditions & Items test corrects & Items test incorrects \\
 \midrule
Non-adjacents & Fa\_Sol\_Ré\_(O\_P\_Q\_) & *Do\sh\_Sol\sh\_Si (S\_R\_T) \\
 & Sol\sh\_Do\sh\_Si\_ (R\_S\_T) & *Ré\_Sol\_Fa (Q\_P\_O) \\
 & \_Do\_Fa\sh\_Ré\sh (\_u\_v\_w) & *La\_Mi\_La\sh (\_y\_x\_z) \\
 & \_Mi\_La\_La\sh (\_x\_y\_z) & *Ré\sh\_Fa\sh\_Do (\_w\_v\_u) \\
Adjacents &  Ré.Ré\sh.Fa.Do.Sol.Fa\sh (QwOuPv) & *Si.La.Sol\sh.La\sh.Do\sh.Mi (TyRzSx) \\
 & Ré.La\sh.Fa.Mi.Sol.La (QzOxPy) & *Si.Fa\sh.Sol\sh.Ré\sh.Do\sh.Do (TvRwSu) \\
 & Si.Ré\sh.Sol\sh.Do.Do\sh.Fa\sh (TwRuSv) & *Ré.La.Fa.La\sh.Sol.Mi (QyOzPx) \\
 & Si.La\sh.Sol\sh.Mi.Do\sh.La (TzRxSy) & *Ré.Fa\sh.Fa.Ré\sh.Sol.Do QvOwPu) \\
 \bottomrule
\end{tabular}

\end{table}

\lipsum[3]

\end{document}

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If I try the same with \begin{tabularx}{lXX}, I get that one line is split into two rows (with a wrong hyphen, unless I disable hyphenation for the table). A better result is with the specification @{}lXX@{}:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tabularx,booktabs}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newcommand{\sh}{$\sharp$}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]

\begin{table}[htp]
\centering
\footnotesize
\hyphenpenalty=10000
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}lXX@{}}
 \toprule
Conditions & Items test corrects & Items test incorrects \\
 \midrule
Non-adjacents & Fa\_Sol\_Ré\_(O\_P\_Q\_) & *Do\sh\_Sol\sh\_Si (S\_R\_T) \\
 & Sol\sh\_Do\sh\_Si\_ (R\_S\_T) & *Ré\_Sol\_Fa (Q\_P\_O) \\
 & \_Do\_Fa\sh\_Ré\sh (\_u\_v\_w) & *La\_Mi\_La\sh (\_y\_x\_z) \\
 & \_Mi\_La\_La\sh (\_x\_y\_z) & *Ré\sh\_Fa\sh\_Do (\_w\_v\_u) \\
Adjacents &  Ré.Ré\sh.Fa.Do.Sol.Fa\sh (QwOuPv) & *Si.La.Sol\sh.La\sh.Do\sh.Mi (TyRzSx) \\
 & Ré.La\sh.Fa.Mi.Sol.La (QzOxPy) & *Si.Fa\sh.Sol\sh.Ré\sh.Do\sh.Do (TvRwSu) \\
 & Si.Ré\sh.Sol\sh.Do.Do\sh.Fa\sh (TwRuSv) & *Ré.La.Fa.La\sh.Sol.Mi (QyOzPx) \\
 & Si.La\sh.Sol\sh.Mi.Do\sh.La (TzRxSy) & *Ré.Fa\sh.Fa.Ré\sh.Sol.Do QvOwPu) \\
 \bottomrule
\end{tabularx}

\end{table}

\lipsum[3]

\end{document}

However, the result will change with the text width.

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Note that tabularx needs at least an X column in order to work.

Note also that \# is not the correct symbol for a sharp. I defined \sh as $\sharp$ (the \sharp command is only available in math mode, by default).

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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

[Tex/LaTex] Help with a booktabs table

A better version:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{L}[1]{>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{#1}}
\begin{document}
  \begin{table}[htbp]
\caption{Minimum Requirements for Automatic Readmission into the Commerce Faculty}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{@{}p{0.12\textwidth}*{4}{L{\dimexpr0.22\textwidth-2\tabcolsep\relax}}@{}}
\toprule
& \multicolumn{2}{c}{BCom} &
\multicolumn{2}{c}{B.Bus.Sci} \\
\cmidrule(r{4pt}){2-3} \cmidrule(l){4-5}
& Number of courses required to pass & Cumulative Total of Courses & Number of courses &         Cumulative Total of Courses\\
\midrule
First year & 4 & 8 & 4 & 18 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\label{table:mr}
\end{table}
\end{document}

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Why your code didn't compile?

You missed a & at the begining of
```
\multicolumn{2}{c}{{BCom} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{B.Bus.Sci} \\
```
making the first entry to go in to the first column.
You have a && in the line
```
Number of courses required to pass & Cumulative Total of Courses &&
     Number of courses &         Cumulative Total of Courses
```
It should be & and you should put an & at the start of line. And at the end of this line you missed \\ just before \cmidrule.

Now the modifications

After correcting all the above, I have introduced a new column type with the help of array package.:

\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{L}[1]{>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{#1}}

\raggedright is added to avoid ugly justification effects since the columns can be narrow and words can vary in length. This takes care of bad boxes also.

I have used this L column with a width

\dimexpr0.22\textwidth-2\tabcolsep\relax

through

*{4}{L{\dimexpr0.22\textwidth-2\tabcolsep\relax}}

instead of repeating.

As a side note, the \cmidrule can be shortened from left or right by

\cmidrule(r{4pt}){2-3}

Here {4pt} is the amount by which we shorten. It can be left off like \cmidrule(r){4-5}.

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