What is the easiest way to have 2 lines in some of the cells in a table?
The only way I can think right now is to actually have 2 separate rows (without the line in the middle) and use \multirow on all other cells in this row. Any easier ideas?
[Tex/LaTex] Table with multiple lines in some cells
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Vertically centering cell entries is possible via the m{<width>} column type from the array package. Horizontal centering is obtained by prepending the column entries with \centering\arraybackslash (also supported by array). For completeness and brevity, the MWE below defines the new column type M which does all of the above:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
%\usepackage{showframe}% http://ctan.org/pkg/showframe
\usepackage[margin=1.0in]{geometry}% http://ctan.org/pkg/margin
\usepackage{booktabs}% http://ctan.org/pkg/booktabs
\usepackage{array}% http://ctan.org/pkg/array
\newcolumntype{M}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{\dimexpr.25\linewidth-2\tabcolsep}}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{MMMM}
\toprule
A & B & D & E \\
\midrule
\rule{15pt}{10pt} & One & Two & Three \\
\rule{15pt}{10pt} & Three & One & Two \\
\rule{15pt}{10pt} & Two & Three & One \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}
For images, I've used \rule{15pt}{10pt}, although the above solution works for any image size.
The table width is also chosen to fit exactly within the text block, making each of the four columns the same width (.25\linewidth-2\tabcolsep). To see this, uncomment the showframe package which highlights the text block boundary.
By default, multirow will center your text vertically, however your compiling error is what is stopping your code working. You must add \arraybackslash after your \raggedright in the column definition. Once that's done, you can remove your base line adjustment.
Also to simplify your code, you could define a couple of new column types:
\documentclass[preview,border=1px]{standalone}
\usepackage{array,multirow}
\pagestyle{empty}
\newcolumntype{P}{>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{3cm}}
\newcolumntype{M}{>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}m{3cm}}
\begin{document}
% code generated from Word OOXML via XSLT2
\begin{tabular}{@{}|P|P|P|P|@{}}\hline
% first row
\multirow{3}{3cm}{Tests:}
&\multicolumn{1}{M|}{Vortest}
&\multicolumn{1}{M|}{1. Nachtest}
&\multicolumn{1}{M|}{2. Nachtest}\\
% second row
&\multirow{2}{3cm}{Juni vor dem TSC}
&\multirow{2}{3cm}{September nach dem TSC}
&\multirow{2}{3cm}{Mai/Juni im Jahr nach dem TSC}
\\\cline{1-1} % this is line 24
% bogus third row
&&&\\\cline{1-1}\cline{2-2}\cline{3-3}\cline{4-4}
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
Fixing the multiple vertical lines is also done here by only adding the line after the column definition instead of both before and after:
However, I am not entirely sure what you are trying to achieve and the multirow in the second line are to me a bit confusing. Could you clarify what you are trying to achieve exactly?
Best Answer
You could nest a
tabularwithin anothertabular:The use of
@{}..@{}voids the additional space (horizontal tab separation) inserted by the nestedtabular.Also, the above example inserts the nested
tabularvertically centered with respect to the row. If you want ittop orbottom aligned, use the optional parameter totabular:\begin{tabular}[t]..or\begin{tabular}[b]....Note that this approach also works within math mode for an
array.