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From: allan@rind.cs.cornell.edu (James Allan)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TABLES - entries spanning rows
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Date: 24 Jan 91 16:44:55 GMT
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vaisey@fornax.UUCP (Jacques Vaisey) writes:
>I seem to be unable to find out how to make a table in TeX (not LaTeX)
>where the entries span rows (spanning columns is easy). For instance, I
>want a table of the form:
>  -------------------------------------
>  |          |         TEST           |
>  |   SPAN   |------------------------|
>  |          |  TEST2   |  TEST3      |
>  -------------------------------------
>Does anyone have an example of this sort of table that could be
>used as a template?


Must admit that I'm not much of an expert here, but the following did
the trick for me:

	\begin{tabular}{|l|@{}l@{}|}
	\hline
	Span & \begin{tabular}{c|c}
		\multicolumn{2}{c}{Test} \\
		\hline
		Test2 & Test3
		\end{tabular} \\
	\hline
	\end{tabular}

The two `@{}' things serve to bring the line under `Test' all the way
to the two vertical lines.  Perhaps someone can provide a nicer or
better solution, but until then....

			-- james allan
			   allan@cs.cornell.edu