On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:17:29AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Kevin Gross wrote:
> > 1. Is there any way to merge cells across rows? I know it can be done across
> > columns using special cell/multicolumn but apparently there is no
> > corresponding way to merge rows. Is there a latex workaround? Will merging
> > rows be a feature in a later release?
>
> why do you need this? in fact of the linebreak option
> you can write so much lines as possible.
Use the mulirow package (get it from CTAN if it is not installed on your
machine)
> > 2. In a table, I've got some mathematical notation containing both super- and
> > sub-scripts, e.g. in latex \textrm{H}^{x}_{g}. Unfortunately, the bottom of
> > the "g" touches the underlying row border. Is there anyway to increase the
> > row height so as to prevent this behavior?
>
> try in latex preamble
>
> \newcommand\myIndexPower[3]{%
> $\textrm{#1}_{\raisebox{0.25ex}{$\scriptstyle #2$}}%
> ^{\raisebox{0.2ex}{$\scriptstyle #3$}}$%
> }
>
> and in text in tex(red)
>
> \myIndexPower{base}{index}{exponent}
A different solution: put
\newcommand{inch}[1]{\raisebox{0pt}[\height][1.4\depth]{\ensuremath{#1}}}
in the preamble, and then put \inch{} around each instance of H^x_g.
