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From: zhou@linac.fnal.gov (Ping Zhou)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Vertical centering of table headings in LaTeX...
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Date: 16 Aug 90 22:09:58 GMT
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In-reply-to: estes@iris.ucdavis.edu's message of 16 Aug 90 08:41:59 GMT

In article <7584@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> estes@iris.ucdavis.edu (Robert Estes) writes:

   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


I had the same problem before. One way that I find to do what you
asked is to use another tabular environment (two rows, one column in
this case) in place of "Column #1". It works fine for me.