[comp.text.tex] latex tables

ne201ph@prism.gatech.EDU (Halvorson,Peter J) (03/29/91)

Is there a perfect table style for LaTeX?

I've found separate styles to do better vertical spacing ( tabls.sty),
do long tables ( supertab.sty), and do decimal aligning ( decalign.sty).
I've been bothered by each of these problems ( equations overlapping,
20 page tables ( in an appendix), and columns of floating point numbers).
Has anyone got a combined style file?  One tabular environment that will
do multipage tables, equations in the table, and has d in addition to
l, r, c, and p{} as alignment options?  

Call it lazyness, but I'd rather not have to deal with three separate 
styles.  Another problem is fixing two problems in the same table with 
the separate styles.

I don't feel qualified to merge them myself, but perhaps the authors or
some TeX wizard will do it.

LIRAKLIO@MIAMIU.BITNET (LEO J IRAKLIOTIS) (03/29/91)

Hello there.
 
I am typing a report using LaTeX and cdocumentstyle[twocolumn]{report}.
Somewhere I need to have a data table which is wider that one
column and I want it to expand to both columns, something like that:
 
    **************************         ****************************
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    ---------------------------------------------------------------
    | TABLE I                                                     |
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    |                                                             |
    |                                                             |
    |                                                             |
    |                                                             |
    |                                                             |
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
    **************************         ****************************
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I would appreciate your suggestions.
 
Please contact:
BITNet ................ LIRAKLIO @ MIAMIU
InterNet .............. LIRAKLIO @ MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU
 
Thanx,
Leo Irakliotis
Physics Dept., Miami University