Creating Tables
In this chapter, you will find recipes for crafting aesthetically pleasing tables. Specifically, this chapter covers the following topics:
- Designing a legible table
- Positioning tables
- Merging cells
- Splitting a cell diagonally
- Adding footnotes to a table
- Aligning numeric data
- Coloring a table
- Importing data from an external file
With LaTeX, we can create and print complex tables. In this chapter, we will first focus on achieving good readability. We will then continue to explore helpful design elements.
We assume you know the basics of tabular environments from an introduction to LaTeX such as LaTeX Beginner’s Guide, Second Edition, Packt Publishing, Chapter 6, Creating Tables. You can find the code examples of that chapter online at https://latexguide.org/chapter-06.
While the recipes are based on standard LaTeX tabular environments, you can use them similarly with tabular*, tabularx, tabulary, and related environments...
