[OS X TeX] Tables Question

Jada Watson jada.watson at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 19:10:12 EDT 2011


Thank you again! This really helped a lot, and I was able to finish all of
my tables using this as a template.

I am very grateful for the help.

Jada




On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Michael Sharpe <msharpe at ucsd.edu> wrote:

>
> On Jul 10, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Jada Watson wrote:
>
> > Sorry to bother everyone again, I hope this is the last question with
> regard to these pesky tables.
> >
> > 1) Is there a way to make one column slightly narrower than the rest (I
> have been playing around with the \hspace code, and it doesn't seem to do
> the trick.
> >
> > 2) The table I was asking about yesterday has items spaced out in a
> specific way over four columns, so the example send to me uses the
> \multicolumn code, but I am having problems in a table that does not require
> multicolumns and spacing information within just a regular cell. I copied
> the table I attempted to make below (with the Word doc attached, it's the
> last table). I keep getting alignment errors. I'm sure the problem is easy,
> but I am not 100% sure that I'm doing this right.
> >
> > \noindent
> > \begin{tabular}{|r|c|c|c|} \hline
> > Section&Introduction&Exposition&Développement\\ \hline
> > \multirow{2}{*}{Musique} &&{||:
> 1T\hspace{.5in}Tr\hspace{.5in}2T\hspace{.5in}TC:||}&&
> > && {a b c\hspace{.5in}a,
> b\hspace{.3in}a'\hspace{.3in}d\hspace{.2in}e\hspace{.1in}} &e,a,b,d& \hline
> > Tonalité& Sol majeur& {Sol M\hspace{.6in}mod.\hspace{.4in}Ré
> M\hspace{.3in}}&mod.\\ \hline
> > Mesures&1&{21\hfil25\hfil33\hfil41\hfil57\hfil61\hfil72}&83\\ \hline
> > \end{tabular}
> >
>
> The \multirow macro  using * sets each entry to its natural width. You can
> force this to something different. In a Terminal window, type texdoc
> multirow to see the options.
>
> Try this:
>
> \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|} \hline
> Section&Introduction&Exposition&Développement\\ \hline
> \multirow{3}{*}{Musique} &&{||:
> 1T\hspace{.4in}Tr\hspace{.4in}2T\hspace{.4in}TC:||}&\\
> &&&e,a,b,d\\
> && {a b c\hspace{.5in}a,
> b\hspace{.3in}a'\hspace{.3in}d\hspace{.2in}e\hspace{.1in}}&\\  \hline
> Tonalité& Sol majeur& {Sol M\hspace{.6in}mod.\hspace{.4in}Ré
> M\hspace{.3in}}&mod.\\ \hline
> Mesures&1&\hbox to2.3in{21\hfil25\hfil33\hfil41\hfil57\hfil61\hfil72}&83\\
> \hline
> \end{tabular}
>
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