[Tugindia] some more table formatting issues

Alexander Nervedi alexnerdy at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 2 05:20:19 CEST 2006


That works perfectly ....!

I had posted this on MikTeX as well. Someone operationalized my idea (adding 
exrta table lines and putting the notes there with multicolumn) and sent me 
the code, instead actually offering a new suggestion.... sheesh! Thank you  
Krishinan sar!

sikandar.


>From: "E. Krishnan" <ekmath at asianetindia.com>
>Reply-To: TUGIndia Mailing List <tugindia at tug.org>
>To: TUGIndia Mailing List <tugindia at tug.org>
>Subject: Re: [Tugindia] some more table formatting issues
>Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 08:04:23 +0530 (IST)
>
>On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Alexander Nervedi wrote:
>
> > I am trying to do something simple; i have a centered table and would 
>like
> > footnotes to begin below the \hline that I draw to mark the end of the
> > table. When I specify the table as I do in the LaTeX script below I find
> > that the footnotes begin from the left margin and stick out very sorely.
> >
> > is there a way to align this so that it begin right under the table and
> > wraps around the width of the table? One work around I can think of is
> > specifying an extra row, multicoulming it into one coulmn and typing in
> > there, but that is very inelegant in my mind. I hope there are superior
> > alternatives out there.
> >
> > \documentclass[11pt]{article} % specifying document type
> > \begin{document}
> > \begin{table}
> >     \caption{example}
> >     \begin{center}
> >         \begin{tabular}{l|c}
> >             top & top2 \\
> >             \hline
> >             1&2\\
> >             \hline
> >         \end{tabular}
> >     \end{center}
> >     \small
> >     Notes: \\
> >     1.Data from the figment of my imagination
> > \end{table}
> > \end{document}
>
>
>How about this?
>
>\newcommand{\MyTable}{%
>   \begin{tabular}{l|c}
>             top & top2 \\
>             \hline
>             1&2\\
>             \hline
>         \end{tabular}}
>
>\newlength{\TabLen}
>\settowidth{\TabLen}{\MyTable}
>
>\begin{table}
>   \caption{example}
>   \begin{center}
>     \MyTable\\
>     \parbox{\TabLen}{%
>       \small
>       Notes: \\
>       1.Data from the figment of my imagination}
>   \end{center}
>\end{table}
>
>
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>
>--
>Krishnan
>
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