[Tex/LaTex] Wrapping text in \multicolumn

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I would like to wrap (and center) text within \multicolumn. Tabularx and tabilary only wrap the text outside of the \multicolumn{} columns. I would also like to define the column width as defined by the non \multicolumn{} rows. Any ideas?

Example:

% Unwrapped example
\begin{tabular}{l*{7}{c}}
Team              & P &\multicolumn{2}{c}{Points Collected bssss} & L & F  & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Points Collected blablabl} \\
\hline
Manchester United & 6 & 4 & 0 & 2 & 10 & 5 & 12  \\
Celtic            & 6 & 3 & 0 & 3 &  8 & 9 &  9  \\
Benfica           & 6 & 2 & 1 & 3 &  7 & 8 &  7  \\
FC Copenhagen     & 6 & 2 & 1 & 3 &  5 & 8 &  7  \\
\end{tabular}

Best Answer

You can use a new column type:

\newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{#1}}

with the help of array package.

Complete code:

\documentclass{article}

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

\begin{document}
    % Unwrapped example
\begin{tabular}{l*{7}{c}}
Team              & P &\multicolumn{2}{C{1.5cm}}{Points Collected bssss} & L & F  & \multicolumn{2}{C{1.5cm}}{Points Collected blablabl} \\
\hline
Manchester United & 6 & 4 & 0 & 2 & 10 & 5 & 12  \\
Celtic            & 6 & 3 & 0 & 3 &  8 & 9 &  9  \\
Benfica           & 6 & 2 & 1 & 3 &  7 & 8 &  7  \\
FC Copenhagen     & 6 & 2 & 1 & 3 &  5 & 8 &  7  \\
\end{tabular} 

\end{document}

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You may use either m{#1} or b{#1} instead of p{#1} as your likes.

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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}

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\frame
{
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    %
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    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] Paragraph column in tabular working only in the first column

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{array,ragged2e}
\newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{\Centering}m{#1}}
\begin{document}

{\def\arraystretch{1.5}
\begin{tabular}{ C{1.8cm} | C{1cm} }
Problem & $\beta$ \\\hline
LCR-1 & 0.25      \\\hline
LCR-10 & 0.05     \\\hline
LCR-0.2 & 0.575   \\\hline
Airplane & 0.05   \\\hline
DR & 0.27
\end{tabular}}

\end{document}

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