Nov 28, 2016 · The most significant difference between the tabular and tabular* environments is that the latter can be set to occupy a pre-specified width. Often, but not necessarily, this width …

Jul 18, 2017 · \noindent% Insures there's no paragraph indent \begin{minipage}{\textwidth}% Minipage has width exactly the same as the text block \centering% Centers the contents of the …

\begin{tabular}{@{}l r r@{}} that is, with one @{} to the left of first column specifier and another @{} to the right of the last column specifier. Yet the "Not So Short Guide to LaTex" says this …

The code below defines two new columntypes: b for 'big' and s for 'small'. I followed the details of section 4.3 of the documentation to create these.

Apr 10, 2021 · \begin{table} \centering \scriptsize \caption{Guidelines for excavation and support of rock tunnels in accordance to RMR.} \bigskip % set an easy tabcolsep proportional to …

In contrast to this, arrays and tabulars are placed as-is in the text, at the position they are coded. tabularx is a package that extends the starred version tabular* - which requires a length to be …

Aug 4, 2016 · \\ should only be used to break lines in very specific contexts: inside tabular and array environments, for example. Otherwise, you get lots of bad box warnings. And you don't …

The reasoning behind using multicolumn is that I need the tabular to be 2 cells in the upper part of the tabular and 3 cells in the lower one. Apologies for not showing you this in the original post, …

I wish to be able to have a table (using tabular) that fills the page horizontally with each column using a fraction of that space, for now assume that they are equally sized. I wish to be able to …

Vertical spacing inside tabular cells.....seemed to be a secret to me, but now I found the following: The vertical size of a tabular cell is at least \baselineskip. This is (by default) composed of: …