Hello, in this post you can check how to create a table in LaTeX, and some examples at the end of the document.
I hope you have explored that environment, here, in this post, I bring you two useful tools that you may require while doing tables
Rotated Text
We need to import the rotating
package and we need to use the command sideways
If you want to know more about some packages, you can check this post.
We must put the text which will be rotated in the sideways
command, this command must be inside the column, as in the following example
Produces
Another example is
Produces
Merging Rows and Columns
We need to import the multirow
package
- We need to use
multicolumn
to merge columns, its structure is ```
\multicolumn{numberOfColumns}{Alignment}{text}
* We need to use `multirow` to merge rows, its structure is
\multirow{numberOfRows}{width}{text}
We can put `*` in *width* to set a natural width
![code](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/gg2toa9q6dzz5so380aa.png)
Produces
![Screenshot from 2021-02-23 10-45-24](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/hognjw03n1j1idhmicop.png)
**WAIT!!!** What is this!? Why there are lines in that column, it is not supposed that there would not need to be lines in that column. Well, we have discovered a property of the `\hline` command.
* The `\hline` command puts a line from the first column to the last column. we need to explore another command
## `cline` Command
With this command, we can draw a horizontal line across the columns, its structure is `\cline{i-j}` where *i* is the first column and *j* the ending column
* We start counting in 1
![code](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/85y93zzkn4pep7iwwxek.png)
Produces
![Screenshot from 2021-02-23 10-59-27](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/07xm2jrwng1t73l2mx42.png)
So, now we can modify our last example and obtain
![code](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/szt32bahbtbkrc2ml9ob.png)
Produces
![Screenshot from 2021-02-23 11-01-25](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/q5zosalttgaqut2tejzh.png)
I encourage you to play with these commands.
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Thanks, see you :)
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