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From: young@ut-emx.UUCP (Young)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Vertical Centering in Table, Again
Message-ID: <36580@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 90 06:12:33 GMT
Reply-To: young@ut-emx.UUCP (Young U. Ryu)
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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In order to create a table:

                               columns
                          col1        col2
                      +-----------+----------+
                      | Low xxx   | Low xxx  |
            Row1      |           |          |
                      | Low yyy   | High yyy |
     Rows             +-----------+----------+
                      | High xxx  | High xxx |
            Row2      |           |          |
                      | Low yyy   | High yyy |
                      +-----------+----------+

I have used the following:

\begin{tabular}{r@{}c@{}c@{}c@{}} &
 &
\multicolumn{2}{c}{Columns} \\
 &
 &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Col1} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Col2} \\
Rows &
\begin{tabular}{r} Row1 \\ \\ Row2 \\  \end{tabular} &  % <---***---
\begin{tabular}{@{}|c|@{}} \hline
   Low xxx \\ Low yyy \\ \hline High xxx \\ Low yyy \\ \hline \end{tabular} &
\begin{tabular}{@{}|c|@{}} \hline
   Low xxx \\ High yyy \\ \hline High xxx \\ High yyy \\ \hline \end{tabular}
\end{tabular}

Especially I don't like the line marked by <---***---.
In this specific table, to place `Row1' and `Row2' at proper places,
I put an empty line between them. However, in:

         +------+------+
   Row1  |  1   |   2  |
         +------+------+
   Row2  |  3   |   4  |
         +------+------+

if the number of lines in 1 is different from the number of lines in 2,
it's even harder to place `Row1' and `Row2' at proper places.

Any words of wisdom???

Thanks in advance.

Young (young@emx.utexas.edu)
at the Univ. of Texas at Austin