While writing my thesis, I found need to include several tables. The standard table package included in LaTeX sucks. Doing some research, I found that the booktabs package is far superior and produces truly beautiful results.
It can be called by inserting this code:\usepackage{booktabs}
The following links are for later use:
- Vertical table stuff – will be good for making Houses of Quality and other such things.
- Various tabular information – Good for referencing how to make tables appear a certain way. Maybe not entirely compatible with booktabs?
- Basic table info – for starting with no table experience in LaTeX.
- WikiBooks table info – pretty basic but this is where I found the first info on the booktabs package.
- multicolumn – explanation of how multicolumns work.
Here is an example of a table I created. Note that the “textwidth” variable is defined in my class files.
\begin{table}
\caption{GLOBE Cultural Clusters \cite{GLOBE04}.}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{l p{0.6\textwidth}}
\toprule
Cluster & Cultures \\
\midrule
Confucian Asia & Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, South Korea \\
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Southern Asia & Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Thailand, Iran \\
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Latin America & Ecuador, El Salvador, Columbia, Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Argentina, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Mexico \\
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Nordic Europe & Denmark, Finland, Sweden \\
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Anglo & Canada, USA, Australia, Ireland, England, South Africa (White Sample), New Zealand \\
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Germanic Europe & Austria, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany-East, Germany-West \\
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Sub-Saharan Africa & Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia, Nigeria, South Africa (Black Sample) \\
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Eastern Europe & Greece, Hungary, Albania, Slovenia, Poland, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan \\
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Middle East & Turkey, Kuwait, Egypt, Morocco, Qatar \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\label{table:cultural_clusters_GLOBE}
\end{table}