Hi I have a LaTeX table code generated from R like the following
\usepackage{rotating}
...
\begin{sidewaystable}
\begin{center}
\small\addtolength{\tabcolsep}{-7pt}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c}
\hline
& 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 & 9 & 10 & 11 & 12 \\
\hline
1 & 199431807780.64 & 183081402932.29 & 128534694388.51 & 179440680448.90 & 108197076781.65 & 197467417852.02 & 160955357155.76 & 131219625892.12 & 195614579576.07 & 124954368732.87 & 150613258150.41 & 174825984193.01 \\
2 & 103291688766.33 & 122482430678.79 & 133002175739.97 & 145037559652.70 & 195323145552.54 & 127063745679.33 & 117424926743.84 & 163175808917.73 & 142332740593.70 & 141749742929.82 & 149479208537.38 & 170449046092.11 \\
3 & 147147895675.15 & 141156681370.92 & 123554744524.88 & 146418996830.47 & 113873624568.81 & 180636164429.60 & 154157750261.95 & 179955205763.69 & 177509862114.68 & 184403196861.97 & 188580405595.71 & 138935472769.66 \\
4 & 190173864271.49 & 100045285350.64 & 127888713567.52 & 192334005935.12 & 149804830760.70 & 110147950542.16 & 193738265451.98 & 181565890880.30 & 162375453603.45 & 109334682021.29 & 117348478571.51 & 141804601531.48 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{sidewaystable}
I have a set of tables like this. My problem is the table is not displayed in the page. So I have used two solutions 1) rotating package; 2) adding \small\addtolength{\tabcolsep}{-7pt} between \begin{center} and \begin{tabular}.
But the problem is the text in the table gets overlapped and is not legible to read. Can anyone please help me by giving a solution for this.
Best Answer
So, there are a couple of things to consider here. Here are some possible options for fitting your style tables within the page.
[1] Enlarging the page
This is always an option. The more room on the page, the more stuff you can put on there - plain and simple. Page layout and size is easily adjusted using the
geometrypackage.[2] Rotating your table
Particularly for tables that are wider than they are longer/taller, rotating will save you some space and perhaps make tables fit-the-page. There are a couple of options here, depending on how you want your table caption to be placed. For example, the
rotatingpackage provides thesidewaystableenvironment. Also, thegraphicxpackage provides the\rotatebox{<angle>}{<stuff>}command.[3] Modify the font
This is actually quite radical, since typesetting of a document is all about consistency. So, changing the font may cause an inconsistency in terms of the other elements. However, preference and aesthetics is left up to the user and the content. To make it fit if it is too big you could use
\smallor\footnotesizeor even\scriptsize.[4] Changing the table layout
This might be last resort, but it all depends on aesthetics. Instead of keeping the table very wide, break it into two tables that are less wide, and they can possibly fit on the page a little better. Or, possibly, modify the parameters inherent to every table like the gap between columns, or the line spread.
Using the limited information at my disposal, we can use a combination of [2] and [3] via the
graphicxpackage commands\resizebox{<h-length>}{<v-length>}{<stuff>}and\rotatebox{<angle>}{<stuff>}:However, using the
\resizeboxcommand modifies not only the font size, but everything else - the line width of the\hlineas well. Moreover, you cannot have different tables properly resized this way - my code reflects that since this is actually a single table with gaps provided by empty rows. You'll notice that the tables are specifically "shrunk" to0.98\textheightwhile maintaining the aspect ratio (via!) to let them just fit within the text block of the page.Instead (considering [4] as well) we can change the table layout by means of
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{1pt}rather than\addtolength{..}{..}which would fix the column separation at1pt. Notice the difference between the table entries and the lines:Most, if not all, of these techniques depends on your style preference the rest of the document.