Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Coloured multirows

[eiterorm]

Hi!
I wish to make a table with multirows and colours corresponding to my examples given below, which I assume are fairly comprehensible.

Described in words I want the cells in the leftmost column to span varying numbers of rows, in addition to being every other white and grey. Furthermore, I want the rows in the rest of the columns to be every other white and grey as well.

I tried using "\rowcolors{1}{white}{lightgray}" in the table, but that did not work well together with the row spanning in the leftmost column.

Is there a way of defining every other (spanned) cell white and grey in a single column? Defining the colour of every cell seems like a lot of unnecessary work.

This table is also going to span several pages, (I have left that out of my code for simplicity) so manually drawing a table on every page is not an option.

Thanks!

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\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[top=3.5cm, bottom=3.5cm, left=2cm, right=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern,microtype}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ |p{0.25\textwidth}|*{2}{p{0.32\textwidth}|} }
\hline
\multirow{5}{*}{white}
	& white	& white	\\
 	& grey	& grey	\\
 	& white	& white	\\
 	& grey	& grey	\\
 	& white	& white	\\ \hline
\multirow{4}{*}{grey}
	& grey	& grey	\\
	& white	& white	\\
	& grey	& grey	\\
	& white	& white	\\ \hline
\multirow{3}{*}{white}
	& grey	& grey	\\
	& white	& white	\\
	& grey	& grey	\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}

[eiterorm]

While bumping, I might also add that even colouring each cell does not work well with multirows. When colouring a cell which spans multiple rows, you have to colour each and every row to entirely colour the spanned cell. However, when you do this, the text disappears, as shown below.

So I wonder, as before, if there is an easy way to colour a table according to my previous post.

output.pdf

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\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[top=3.5cm, bottom=3.5cm, left=2cm, right=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern,microtype}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ |p{0.25\textwidth}|*{2}{p{0.32\textwidth}|} }
\hline
\multirow{5}{*}{white}
	& white	& white	\\
 	& grey	& grey	\\
 	& white	& white	\\
 	& grey	& grey	\\
 	& white	& white	\\ \hline
\multirow{4}{*}{grey}
\cellcolor{lightgray}	& grey	& grey	\\
\cellcolor{lightgray}	& white	& white	\\
\cellcolor{lightgray}	& grey	& grey	\\
\cellcolor{lightgray}	& white	& white	\\ \hline
\multirow{3}{*}{white}
	& grey	& grey	\\
	& white	& white	\\
	& grey	& grey	\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}

[eiterorm]

Still nobody knows how I can solve this?

[Johandicap]

Hi eiterorm,

I was facing the same problem as you and found the answer on a German forum!
http://www.matheplanet.com/matheplanet/ ... pic=109770

I guess my mandatory German classes in elementary school paid off after all

The problem is that table cells below the multirow cell are 'painted' after the text has been written. This is easy to see if you try a \multirow{2}{*}{Test} where you'll see only the upper half of the text!

The solution is to use a negative multirow argument and place it in the bottom cell, e.g.

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\multirow{-2}{*}{Text on colored background}

Very simple but still what I would call a workaround.

Greetings,
Johan from Denmark

[eiterorm]

Hi, Johan! Thanks for the reply.

I tried the workaround with the pdflatex compiler, and I have attached the output below. It doesn't seem to work too well, as it, for some reason, interferes with the text placement in the column. The code used to generate the output is the same as the one in my previous post, only with

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\multirow{-4}{*}{grey}

placed below the spanned cell.

output2.pdf

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[spiderman2]

Thanks a lot, even if it didn't seem to help the original poster this worked for me with pdflatex and 2-row spanning.

Best regards,
Henrik

Hi eiterorm,

I was facing the same problem as you and found the answer on a German forum!
http://www.matheplanet.com/matheplanet/ ... pic=109770

I guess my mandatory German classes in elementary school paid off after all

The problem is that table cells below the multirow cell are 'painted' after the text has been written. This is easy to see if you try a \multirow{2}{*}{Test} where you'll see only the upper half of the text!

The solution is to use a negative multirow argument and place it in the bottom cell, e.g.

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\multirow{-2}{*}{Text on colored background}

Very simple but still what I would call a workaround.

Greetings,
Johan from Denmark

[Golgor]

Hello there!
I know this is a pretty late answer, but I found an answer to your problem and felt like sharing. The example code below will create a table exactly as your picture in the top post. Hope this helps someone!

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\begin{table}[htbp]
\caption{Table with gray and white.}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{lcccl}
                                                				& Column 1	& Column 2	& Column 3			& Column 4              	\\ \rowcolor{lightgray}
                                                				& PM		& 1		& 2				& 28				\\
\multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor{lightgray}}l}{}  				& PD		& 3		& 4				& 29				\\ \rowcolor{lightgray}
                                                				& PM		& 5		& 6				& 30				\\ 
\multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor{lightgray}}l}{\multirow{-4}{*}{Gray}}		& PD		& 7		& 8				& 31				\\ \rowcolor{lightgray}


\multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor{white}}l}{}  					& PM		& 9		& 10				& 32				\\
                                            					& PM		& 11		& 12				& 33				\\ \rowcolor{lightgray}
\multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor{white}}l}{}  					& PD	        & 13		& 14				& 34				\\
                                            					& PM		& 15		& 16				& 35				\\ \rowcolor{lightgray}
\multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor{white}}l}{\multirow{-5}{*}{White}}  		& PD		& 17		& 18				& 36				\\


\multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor{lightgray}}l}{}  				& P1		& 20		& 21				& 37				\\ \rowcolor{lightgray}
                                                				& P2		& 22		& 23				& 38				\\
\multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor{lightgray}}l}{}  				& P3		& 24		& 25				& 39				\\ \rowcolor{lightgray}
\multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor{lightgray}}l}{\multirow{-4}{*}{Gray}}    	& P4		& 26		& 27				& 40				\\

\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

[eiterorm]

Hello there!
I know this is a pretty late answer, but I found an answer to your problem and felt like sharing. The example code below will create a table exactly as your picture in the top post. Hope this helps someone!

This example is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot for sharing! =)