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From: estes@iris.ucdavis.edu (Robert Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Vertical centering of table headings in LaTeX...
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Date: 16 Aug 90 08:41:59 GMT
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Hello,

I've been reading this group for a while and don't think I've seen any
reference to this.  I'm trying to vertically center a one-line column
heading wrt two-line column headings in the same table using LaTeX.

Instead of:

Column      
  #1      Column #2
-------------------
data       data
data       data

I would like:

Column
	  Column #2
  #1
-------------------
data       data
data       data

without the extra space between `Column' and `#1' in column #1 ( I can't
reproduce what I am looking for (exactly) in a text file...)
I've tried multiple permutations with the constructs \hbox, \vbox, \sbox,
\usebox, \shortstack and \makebox, with no luck.  
It always seems to turn out similar to the first
example above.  One possibility might be to make the table think it has a
row of zero height to center `Column #2' in...

It seems like there should be a simple way to do this, but I can't figure it
out.  Any suggestions would be helpful.  Email is fine, unless this problem
is of general interest.

Thanks,  Robert