Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!zhou From: zhou@linac.fnal.gov (Ping Zhou) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Vertical centering in tables - Summary Message-ID: Date: 21 Aug 90 20:30:05 GMT References: <7592@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Sender: zhou@linac.fnal.gov Distribution: na Organization: Fermilab, Batavia, IL Lines: 16 In-reply-to: estes@iris.ucdavis.edu's message of 21 Aug 90 09:34:09 GMT Method #2: a minor modification \documentstyle{article} \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{|c|c|} \hline \begin{tabular}{c} Column \\ \#1 \end{tabular} & Column \#2 \\ \hline 1985 & 43.2 \\ \hline 1992 & 51.6 \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{document} How about using \begin{tabular}{@{}c@{}} instead of \begin{tabular}{c} in the nested tabular environment ? The spacing should have been taken care of in the parent tabular environment. Adding extra space is not appropriate. Second thought, do we really care ?