Uber tables
It's really interesting: most of the questions I'm being asked about LaTeX nowadays center around tables. Figures are still a topic, but tables remain the big great mysterium. 😄
I've briefly described tables in my old and outdated LaTeX crash-course:
\begin{verbatim} \begin{table}[t!] \begin{center} \caption{Eine sehr einfache Tabelle.} \begin{tabular}{lcc}\\ \hline Bit & A & B\\ \hline on & 1 & 0\\ off & 0 & 1\\ \hline \end{tabular} \label{Tab1} \end{center} \end{table} \end{verbatim}
\begin{table}[b!] \begin{center} \caption{Eine einfache Tabelle. Man beachte die vielen hübschen Zahlen.} \begin{tabular}{cccccc}\\ \hline & \multicolumn{2}{c}{(11$\overline{2}$4) FWHM (deg)} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{$\alpha$ (deg)} \\ \hline & $o \cdot \kappa = 0$ & $o \cdot \kappa \neq 0$ & XRD & TEM & GIXD\\ \hline \#A & 0.072 &0.24 & 0.36 & --- &---\\ \#B & 0.047 &0.367 & 0.6 & --- &---\\ \#C & --- &0.344 & 0.56 & 0.63 &---\\ \#D & --- &0.109 & 0.16 & 0.15 &---\\ \#E & --- &0.249 & 0.38 & --- &0.31\\ \#F & --- &0.37 & 0.57 --- &0.55\\ \hline \end{tabular} \label{tab:Tab2} \end{center} \end{table}
But what did I say about bigger tables?
Well, it's really not that bad. What I found amusing is the name I found in the net for these multidimensional monstrosities: uber-huge tables. Let's see how they work:
\begin{landscape} %if your table is too wide - use begin{center} otherwise % (requires \usepackage{pdflscape}) \scriptsize %if nothing else helps \begin{longtable}{llllllll} %if your table spans several pages % (requires \usepackage{longtable}) \caption[Monstertable]{An uber-huge table.} \label{MT1} \\ %This is the header for the first page of the table... \hline \hline \\ \multicolumn{1}{c}{Sample} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Gna} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnu} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Gne} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Gno} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnä} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnö} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnü} \\ \hline \\ \endfirsthead %This is the header for the remaining page(s) of the table... \multicolumn{8}{c}{{\tablename} \thetable{} -- Continued} \\[0.5ex] \hline \hline \\ \multicolumn{1}{c}{Sample} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Gna} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnu} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Gne} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Gno} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnä} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnö} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnü} \\ \hline \\ \endhead %This is the footer for all pages except the last page of the table... \multicolumn{8}{l}{{Continued on next page\ldots}} \\ \endfoot %This is the footer for the last page of the table... \\ \hline \hline \endlastfoot %Now the data... %Please copy this line a hundred thousand times ... 0 & (1, 11, 13725) & (1, 12, 10980), (1, 13, 8235), (3, 1, 0) & 0 & (1, 11, 13725) & (1, 12, 10980), (1, 13, 8235), (2, 2, 0), & 0 & (1, 11, 13725)\\ \end{longtable} \end{landscape}
Now, look at this little beauty:
... and finally, 3546 pages down:
