[Tugindia] Colored tables in LaTeX involving multirow

[Venkatesh Choppella]

Dear Mr. Krishnan,

Thank you for your solution.

The specification I had was slightly different.  It had alternate
*rows* of blue and white (instead of  columns of blue and white). 
With alternate  rows, I would like to use a command like
\rowcolors{2}{White}{Blue}

so the solution is more resilient to addition/deletion of rows,  but
this doesn't seem to work at all.

I'm enclosing a latex listing consisting of

1.  Your solution of colored columns,

2.  A solution for alternate colored rows that I made up after looking
at your solution, and

3. a (non) solution using \rowcolor.


Best Regards.
- venkatesh choppella


%%% Example of Colored Tables with multirows.  Suggestions
%%% to improve solution(s) are welcome.  Please post to
%%% tugindia.tug.org

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[pdftex,table,fixpdftex]{xcolor}
% \usepackage{array}
% \usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{multirow}

\begin{document}
\newcolumntype{r}{>{\columncolor{red!20}}c}
\newcolumntype{g}{>{\columncolor{green!20}}c}
\newcolumntype{b}{>{\columncolor{blue!20}}c}
\newcolumntype{y}{>{\columncolor{yellow!20}}c}
\newcolumntype{w}{>{\columncolor{white!20}}c}

\renewcommand{\multirowsetup}{\centering}

%%%% TABLE WITH BLUE AND WHITE COLUMNS
\begin{center}
 \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
 \begin{tabular}{|c|b|c|}
   \hline
   \multicolumn{1}{|y|}{Yellow}
   & \multicolumn{2}{g|}{Green}\\
   \hline
   \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{}
   & Blue & White\\
   \cline{2-3}
   \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{}
   & Blue & White\\
   \cline{2-3}
   \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{}
   & Blue & White\\
   \cline{2-3}
   \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{%
     \multirow{-4}*{Red}}
   & Blue & White\\
   \hline
   & Blue & White\\
   \cline{2-3}
   & Blue & White\\
   \cline{2-3}
   & Blue & White\\
   \cline{2-3}
   \multirow{-4}*{White}
   & Blue & White\\
   \hline
 \end{tabular}
\end{center}


%%%% TABLE WITH ALTERNATING BLUE AND WHITE ROWS
\begin{center}
 \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
 \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
   \hline
   \multicolumn{1}{|y|}{Yellow}
   & \multicolumn{2}{g|}{Green}\\
   \hline
   \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|b|}{Blue}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|b|}{Blue}\\
   \cline{2-3}
   \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}\\
   \cline{2-3}
   \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|b|}{Blue}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|b|}{Blue}\\
   \cline{2-3}
   \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{%
     \multirow{-4}*{Red}}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}\\
   \hline
   &\multicolumn{1}{|b|}{Blue}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|b|}{Blue}\\
   \cline{2-3}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}\\
   \cline{2-3}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|b|}{Blue}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|b|}{Blue}\\
   \cline{2-3}
   \multirow{-4}*{White}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}\\
   \hline
 \end{tabular}
\end{center}

%%%% TABLE WITH ALTERNATING BLUE AND WHITE ROWS BUT TRYING
%%%% TO USE \rowcolors or \rowcolor command

% \rowcolors%[\hline]  %% DOESN'T WORK!
% {1}{White}{blue!10}
\begin{center}
 \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
 \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
   \hline
   \multicolumn{1}{|y|}{Yellow}
   & \multicolumn{2}{g|}{Green}\\
   \hline
   \rowcolor{blue!20}  %% DOESN'T WORK.
                       %% HOW CAN I FIX IT?
   \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{}
   Blue & Blue\\
   \cline{2-3}
   \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}\\
   \cline{2-3}
   \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|b|}{Blue}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|b|}{Blue}\\
   \cline{2-3}
   \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{%
     \multirow{-4}*{Red}}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}\\
   \hline
   &\multicolumn{1}{|b|}{Blue}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|b|}{Blue}\\
   \cline{2-3}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}\\
   \cline{2-3}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|b|}{Blue}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|b|}{Blue}\\
   \cline{2-3}
   \multirow{-4}*{White}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}
   &\multicolumn{1}{|w|}{White}\\
   \hline
 \end{tabular}
\end{center}

\end{document}


On 2/1/06, E. Krishnan <ekmath at asianetindia.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, CV Radhakrishnan wrote:
>
> > From: Venkatesh Choppella <choppell at gmail.com>
> > To: tugindia at tug.org
> > Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:56:59 +0530
> > Subject: Colored tables in LaTeX involving multirow
> >
> > Are there a set of good examples of doing colored tables that have
> > cells spanning multiple rows (multirow).
>
> > More specifically, how do I generate a colored table with multirow and
> > multicolumn with indicated background color (and text)
> > entries drawn  schematically (in ascii) in the attached file.
>
> Here's a (somewhat crude) way of doing it:
>
> \newcolumntype{r}{>{\columncolor{red}}c}
> \newcolumntype{g}{>{\columncolor{green}}c}
> \newcolumntype{b}{>{\columncolor{blue}}c}
> \newcolumntype{y}{>{\columncolor{yellow}}c}
>
> \renewcommand{\multirowsetup}{\centering}
>
> \begin{center}
>   \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
>   \begin{tabular}{|c|b|c|}
>     \hline
>     \multicolumn{1}{|y|}{Yellow}
>     & \multicolumn{2}{g|}{Green}\\
>     \hline
>     \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{}
>     & Blue & White\\
>     \cline{2-3}
>     \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{}
>     & Blue & White\\
>     \cline{2-3}
>     \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{}
>     & Blue & White\\
>     \cline{2-3}
>     \multicolumn{1}{|r|}{%
>       \multirow{-4}*{Red}}
>     & Blue & White\\
>     \hline
>     & Blue & White\\
>     \cline{2-3}
>     & Blue & White\\
>     \cline{2-3}
>     & Blue & White\\
>     \cline{2-3}
>     \multirow{-4}*{White}
>     & Blue & White\\
>     \hline
>   \end{tabular}
> \end{center}
>
>
>
> --
> Krishnan
>
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Venkatesh Choppella
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