[comp.text.tex] Vertical spanning in LaTeX tables

eric@ee.ualberta.ca (Eric Norum) (01/11/91)

I've used tbl/eqn/troff for quite some time and am having a bit of a
problem making the switch to LaTeX.  My latest problem deals with
tables.  In tbl you can specify that an entry should be vertically
centered with respect to the other items on the row like the `1'
in the following table  (actually, this case is trivial, but since
my terminal doesn't do 1/2 linefeeds I can't think of any other
way of showing what it is I want to do).

      +-----+-----------+
      |     | Jones, D. |
      |  1  | Smith, Q. |
      |     | Bar, F.   |
      +-----+-----------+

Is there a simple way of doing this in LaTeX?

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Eric Norum
Dept. of Electrical Engineering      eric@ee.ualberta.ca
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada.                   phone: (403) 492-4626