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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label multirow</title>
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<h3>Merging cells in a column of a table</h3>
<p>It's easy to come up with a table design that requires a cell that
spans several rows. An example is something where the left-most
column labels the rest of the table; this can be done (in simple
cases) by using
<a href="FAQ-slashbox.html">diagonal separation in corner cells</a>, but that
technique rather strictly limits what can be used as the content of
the cell.
<p>The <i>multirow</i> package enables you to construct such multi-row
cells, in a very simple manner. For the simplest possible use, one
might write:
<blockquote>
<pre>
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
\multirow{4}*{Common g text}
& Column g2a\\
& Column g2b \\
& Column g2c \\
& Column g2d \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
</pre>
</blockquote>
and <i>multirow</i> will position "Common g text" at the vertical
centre of the space defined by the other rows. Note that the rows
that don't contain the "multi-row" specification must have empty
cells where the multi-row is going to appear.
<p>The "<code>*</code>" may be replaced by a column width specification. In this
case, the argument may contain forced line-breaks:
<blockquote>
<pre>
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
\multirow{4}{25mm}{Common\\g text}
& Column g2a\\
& Column g2b \\
& Column g2c \\
& Column g2d \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
</pre>
</blockquote>
A similar effect (with the possibility of a little more
sophistication) may be achieved by putting a smaller table that lines
up the text into a <code>*</code>-declared <code>\</code><code>multirow</code>.
<p>The <code>\</code><code>multirow</code> command may also used to write labels vertically
down one or other side of a table (with the help of the
<i>graphics</i> or <i>graphicx</i> package, which provide the
<code>\</code><code>rotatebox</code> command):
<blockquote>
<pre>
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
\hline
\multirow{4}*{\rotatebox{90}{hi there}}
& Column g2a\\
& Column g2b \\
& Column g2c \\
& Column g2d \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
</pre>
</blockquote>
(which gives text going upwards; use angle <code>-90</code> for text going
downwards, of course).
<p><i>Multirow</i> is set up to interact with the <i>bigstrut</i>
package (which is also discussed in the answer to
<a href="FAQ-struttab.html">spacing lines in tables</a>). You use an
optional argument to the <code>\</code><code>multirow</code> command to say how many of the
rows in the multi-row have been opened up with <code>\</code><code>bigstrut</code>.
<p>The documentation of both <i>multirow</i> and <i>bigstrut</i> is
to be found, as comments, in the package files themselves.
<dl>
<dt><tt><i>bigstrut.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/multirow.zip">macros/latex/contrib/multirow</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/multirow.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/multirow/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>multirow.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/multirow.zip">macros/latex/contrib/multirow</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/multirow.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/multirow/">browse</a>)
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<p><p><p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=multirow">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=multirow</a>
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