Uber tables
It's really interesting: most of the questions I'm being asked about LaTeX nowadays center around tables. Figures are still a topic, but tables remain the big great mysterium. 😄
I've briefly described tables in my old and outdated LaTeX crash-course:
\begin{verbatim}
\begin{table}[t!]
\begin{center}
\caption{Eine sehr einfache Tabelle.}
\begin{tabular}{lcc}\\
\hline
Bit & A & B\\
\hline
on & 1 & 0\\
off & 0 & 1\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{Tab1}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{verbatim}
\begin{table}[b!]
\begin{center}
\caption{Eine einfache Tabelle. Man beachte die vielen hübschen Zahlen.}
\begin{tabular}{cccccc}\\
\hline
& \multicolumn{2}{c}{(11$\overline{2}$4) FWHM (deg)}
& \multicolumn{3}{c}{$\alpha$ (deg)} \\
\hline
& $o \cdot \kappa = 0$ &
$o \cdot \kappa \neq 0$ & XRD & TEM & GIXD\\
\hline
\#A & 0.072 &0.24 & 0.36 & --- &---\\
\#B & 0.047 &0.367 & 0.6 & --- &---\\
\#C & --- &0.344 & 0.56 & 0.63 &---\\
\#D & --- &0.109 & 0.16 & 0.15 &---\\
\#E & --- &0.249 & 0.38 & --- &0.31\\
\#F & --- &0.37 & 0.57 --- &0.55\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:Tab2}
\end{center}
\end{table}
But what did I say about bigger tables?
Well, it's really not that bad. What I found amusing is the name I found in the net for these multidimensional monstrosities: uber-huge tables. Let's see how they work:
\begin{landscape} %if your table is too wide - use begin{center} otherwise
% (requires \usepackage{pdflscape})
\scriptsize %if nothing else helps
\begin{longtable}{llllllll} %if your table spans several pages
% (requires \usepackage{longtable})
\caption[Monstertable]{An uber-huge table.}
\label{MT1} \\
%This is the header for the first page of the table...
\hline \hline \\
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Sample} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Gna} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnu} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Gne} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Gno} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnä} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnö} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnü} \\
\hline
\\
\endfirsthead
%This is the header for the remaining page(s) of the table...
\multicolumn{8}{c}{{\tablename} \thetable{} -- Continued} \\[0.5ex]
\hline \hline \\
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Sample} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Gna} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnu} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Gne} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Gno} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnä} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnö} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Gnü} \\
\hline
\\
\endhead
%This is the footer for all pages except the last page of the table...
\multicolumn{8}{l}{{Continued on next page\ldots}} \\
\endfoot
%This is the footer for the last page of the table...
\\
\hline \hline
\endlastfoot
%Now the data...
%Please copy this line a hundred thousand times ...
0 & (1, 11, 13725) & (1, 12, 10980), (1, 13, 8235), (3, 1, 0) & 0 &
(1, 11, 13725) & (1, 12, 10980), (1, 13, 8235), (2, 2, 0), & 0 & (1, 11, 13725)\\
\end{longtable}
\end{landscape}
Now, look at this little beauty:
... and finally, 3546 pages down: