Aldric Giacomoni <trevoke@gmail.com> writes:

> Understood, thank you very much for explaining it :)

Well - you could define it as one huge table, where the first x columns
belong to the first table, and the last x belong to the second table -
but using this table as an input for further calculations might be
tricky.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo <
> jorge.a.alfaro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > In Org-mode that would be (at least) very strange, but Org-mode uses
>> > backends for the final docs, so you might want to look at e.g. LaTeX
>> > multi-column styles and if Org-mode supports them somehow. But even if
>> > so, it might get complicated and using AucTex directly might be the
>> > better choice in such cases.
>>
>> I agree, in such cases I use AucTeX directly. You can use orgtbl-mode in
>> your tex file to build the main data of the table in LaTeX in Org form,
>> check: (info "(org) A LaTeX example"). Then add your multi-columns with:
>>
>> #+BEGIN_LaTeX
>>   \multirow{''num_rows''}{''width''}{''contents''}
>> #+END_LaTeX
>>
>> If you want multi-rows:
>> #+BEGIN_LaTeX
>>   \usepackage{multirow}
>>   \multirow{''num_rows''}{''width''}{''contents''}
>> #+END_LaTeX
>>
>> A complete example, from a recent paper I was working on:
>>
>> #+BEGIN_LaTeX
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage{multirow}
>> \usepackage{booktabs}
>> \begin{document}
>>
>> \begin{table}
>>   \centering
>>   \begin{tabular}{cccccc}
>>     \toprule
>>     \multirow{2}{*}{Age-group} & \multirow{2}{*}{$L-a$} &
>>     \multirow{2}{*}{$p_{d}$}  & \multirow{2}{*}{$p_{h}$} &
>>     \multicolumn{2}{c}{Likelihood} \\
>>     \cmidrule(lr){5-6}
>>     & & & & Mean & 95\% CI \\
>>     \midrule
>>     0-5       & 83.73 & 0.00004 & 0.0141  & 0.38009 &
>> $[0.24024,\,0.53638]$\\
>>     5-17      & 74.78 & 0.00001 & 0.0006  & 0.19399 &
>> $[0.10497,\,0.31382]$\\
>>     18-49     & 52.52 & 0.00009 & 0.0042  & 0.12682 &
>> $[0.07216,\,0.20166]$\\
>>     50-64     & 30.10 & 0.00134 & 0.0193  & 0.12682 &
>> $[0.07216,\,0.20166]$\\
>>     65+       & 14.19 & 0.01170 & 0.0421  & 0.17229 &
>> $[0.09871,\,0.26994]$\\
>>     \bottomrule
>>   \end{tabular}
>>   \caption{Age-dependent health effect parameters.}
>> \end{table}
>>
>> \end{document}
>> #+END_LaTeX
>>
>> Everything between \midrule and \bottomrule is easier written with
>> orgtbl-mode.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jorge.
>>
>>
>>

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