Tables with column and row labels and headers

[jfir...@linfield.edu]

I know there has been a lot of work on tables since I last updated mine. I scoured the sample article and saw lots of cool tables, but I was unclear if there is a way to label columns and rows as well as give column and row headers. An example of the type of table I have:

I can keep them the way they are, but the "Player" labels are just cells, as are the "H/T". This doesn't seem particularly accessible.

My current PreTeXt:

<table xml:id="T_matchpennies" >
      <title>A game matrix showing the payoff vectors</title>
      <tabular>
          <row>
           <cell></cell>
           <cell></cell>
           <cell colspan="2" halign="center">Player 2</cell>
          </row>
          <row>
            <cell></cell>
            <cell></cell>
            <cell bottom="minor" halign="center">H</cell>
            <cell bottom="minor" halign="center">T</cell>
          </row>
          <row>
            <cell>Player 1</cell>
            <cell right="minor">H</cell>
            <cell bottom="minor" right="minor"><m>(1, -1)</m></cell>
            <cell bottom="minor" right="minor"><m>(-1, 1)</m></cell>
          </row>
          <row>
            <cell></cell>
            <cell right="minor">T</cell>
            <cell bottom="minor" right="minor"><m>(-1, 1)</m></cell>
            <cell bottom="minor" right="minor"><m>(1, -1)</m></cell>
          </row>
      </tabular>
    </table>

[Andrew Scholer]

You are correct, that is not currently possible.

Spanner heads over multiple columns ("Player 2" in your diagram) are a common feature and are described in the Chicago Manual of Style, which serves as our guide for such matters. They would be a good candidate for inclusion.

There is no analogous feature in CMoS for the spanner over the row headings. So there would need to be more work done to clearly define their role.

Andrew Scholer (he/him/his)

Computer Science Instructor

Chemeketa Community College

503.589.7649 

computerscience.chemeketa.edu/people/andrew-scholer/

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[Alex Jordan]

You can do some of this.

• Put
  row-headers="yes"
  on the tabular, and the first column will use header cells. In your example, this would capture the "Player 1" only.
• Put
  header="yes"
  on each of the top two row elements, and all cells in those rows will be header cells. This will capture the "Player 2" and its "H" and its "T".
• Both of these things will cause some of the empty cells in the upper left to be "th" cells in HTML. Not sure if that matters.

One thing that this leaves out:

• Having the "Player 1" span multiple rows. PreTeXt doesn't do that at this time, for cells of any nature, not just header cells

An observation. This sort of "two-way table" is perhaps worth identifying as a structure that could have its own markup, rather than using the out-of-the-box "tabular".

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[Alex Jordan]

Oops, another thing this leaves out:

• The "T" and "H" for Player 1 will not be header cells.

[jfir...@linfield.edu]

Thank you. I think I'll leave them as is for now. There are a lot of tables in my book. Another game theorist recently asked how I was doing my bimatrix games wanting to know if I was using a LaTeX package. Since they look good as they are, I'll wait until there are better features for them before I change them all.