How do I bold a column in LaTeX?

How do I bold a column in LaTeX?

Just worth adding to @Herbert’s answer, that you can also make an entire column bold with >{\bfseries} , used in exactly the same way as he uses >{\em} .

How do I wrap text around a column in LaTeX?

Use p{width} for your column specifiers instead of l/r/c. With the regular tabular environment, you want to use the p{width} column type, as marcog indicates. But that forces you to give explicit widths. but then all the factors have to sum up to 1, I suppose (I took this from the LaTeX companion).

What is P in LaTeX table?

The table spec argument tells LaTeX the alignment to be used in each column and the vertical lines to insert. Using p{‘width’} you can define a special type of column which will wrap-around the text as in a normal paragraph.

How to make all cells boldface in Latex table?

You can set the formatting of each column in the tabular argument with > {…}, see Tabular, make a column or a row emphasized: I.e. ‘two times flush left and bold’, then ‘four times centred and bold’.

Is the first column in a table bold?

The first real column (here l) will contain the command to make it bold (if required), but that is not true for the other columns. They therefore are preceded by ^, which is another fake column type used to apply \\currentrowstyle.

Can you make heading row of table bold?

Thanks, that’s true. It is an awkward hack though. Some tables I have are rotated and have 15 columns. This makes for a lot of extbf ‘ing (not that text would be inclined to do so…). Surely there is a more elegant way of making an entire row bold?

Why are the numbers in bold in TeX LaTeX?

Observe that numbers in bold look a lot larger than regular ones. I want something like this: Any suggestions? Thanks for contributing an answer to TeX – LaTeX Stack Exchange!

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