# [OS X TeX] OT: peculiar table formatting

Bruno Voisin bvoisin at mac.com
Wed May 3 18:52:38 EDT 2006

Le 3 mai 06 à 17:32, Herbert Schulz a écrit :

> Sigh... and the booktabs package too. Pushed send too quickly.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of this package. (Note to self: must really
get the 2nd edition of the LaTeX Companion as soon as possible!) I
had tried array.sty, which doesn't seem to solve these particular
problems, but booktabs seems exactly designed for the kind of tables
-- which it calls formal tables -- that I had in mind (journal
requirement: no vertical lines ever, and horizontal lines only when
indicating an item spanning several columns).

Le 3 mai 06 à 23:47, Peter Dyballa a écrit :

> Well, I'd call this a simple approach (which is good enough for me):
>
> \begin{tabular}{cllllll}%cccccc}%
>   & \multicolumn{2}{c}{$\fno \gg 1$} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{$\fno \ll > 1$} \\
>   & \multicolumn{2}{c}{\rule[1mm]{25mm}{0.5mm}}
>    & \multicolumn{4}{c}{\rule[0.5mm]{80mm}{0.5mm}} \\
>   Region & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Inner} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Outer} &
>    \multicolumn{1}{c}{Middle} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Top \& Bottom} &
>     \multicolumn{1}{c}{Shear} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Upper \& Lower} \\
>   Vertical distance     & $O(1)$ & $O(\fno)$     & $O(1)$
>    & \rule{6.25mm}{0mm}$O(\fno)$      & $O(\fno)$   & \rule{7.5mm}
> {0mm}$O(1)$ \\
>   Horizontal distance   & $O(1)$ & $O(\fno)$     & $O(1)$
>    & \rule{6.25mm}{0mm}$O(\fno^{1/2})$ & $O(1)$      &\rule{7.5mm}
> {0mm}$O(1)$ \\
>   Perturbation velocity & $O(1)$ & $O(1/\fno^2)$ & $O(1)$
>    & \rule{6.25mm}{0mm}$O(1)$         & $O(\fno)$   & \rule{7.5mm}
> {0mm}$O(\fno)$ \\
>   Vertical displacement & $O(1)$ & $O(1/\fno)$   & $O(\fno^2)$
>    & \rule{6.25mm}{0mm}$O(\fno)$      & $O(\fno^2)$ & \rule{7.5mm}
> {0mm}$O(\fno^2)$
> \end{tabular}

Thanks for this suggestion. It's not exactly what I was looking for
(for one thing, it's using fixed lengths in millimeters whereas I was
looking for lengths adjusted automatically based on fonts, text size,
etc.), but I'll keep it in mind.

Bruno

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