LaTeX Cookbook

Chapter 6. Designing Tables

This chapter contains recipes for creating good-looking tables. Specifically, it includes recipes for how to do the following:

• Creating a legible table
• Merging cells
• Splitting a cell diagonally
• Adding footnotes to a table
• Aligning numeric data
• Coloring a table
• Adding shape, shading, and transparency
• Importing data from an external file

Introduction

With LaTeX, we can create and print complex tables. In this chapter, we will first talk about achieving good readability. Some recipes will show and explain useful design elements.

While the recipes are based on standard LaTeX tabular environments, you can use them in a similar manner with tabular*, tabularx, tabulary, and related environments.

Note

The tabular* environment achieves a ...