New package tabularew: centering multicolumn headings
Juni 3rd, 2009 by Stefan Kottwitz
In standard tabular environments multicolumn headings will be aligned to the left when they are wider then the text below, even if they contain a “c” as format parameter. Here’s a very small demonstration example:
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage{eurosym} \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{r@{.}l} \multicolumn{2}{c}{Price in \euro} \\ \hline 79 & 50 \\ 9 & 85 \\ 10 & 00 \end{tabular} \end{document}
Output:
The tabularew package by Diego Saba solves this problem by introducing new commands for modifying the horizontal alignment. The example above can be changed to:
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage{eurosym} \usepackage{tabularew} \begin{document} \begin{tabularew}{>{\spew{.5}{+1}}r@{.}l} \multicolumn{2}{c}{Price in \euro} \\ \hline 79 & 50 \\ 9 & 85 \\ 10 & 00 \end{tabularew} \end{document}
Output:
The command \spew and the tabularew environment are explained in the package documentation.
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