Formatting Examples/Gallery of Table Layouts

• This wiki page is inspired by the gallery of table layouts in forumtopic:4311 and draws much of its material from there.

• Tips and techniques on the construction of plaintext tables can be found at forumtopic:13219

• In addition, the Table Turners teamtalk at forumtopic:11960 contains lots of useful discussion and ideas on the handling of table layouts. You can seek advice from the Table Turners team by posting in that thread. The team is also able to take on particularly challenging table layouts upon request.

• The PP Examples on PG wiki page also contains links to etexts on PG which have complex tables. You can view these etexts on PG and get formatting ideas from them.

Military Instructors Manual

Source: Military Instructors Manual, Chapter 1, 016.png DP Project Page: projectID40f98c5c09147 Post to PG: etext14625 View Original Scan Image: open library system Contributed by mikeyc21 in forumpost:83864 Table attributed to JHowse.	Interesting Features:
Drill | Musketry Training | I.D.R. | S.A.F.M. ====================|====================|================== | 7.00-7.30 a.m. | | pars. 133-150 | 8.30-9.30 a.m. | ------------------ | pars. 35-43 Monday, Sept. 10 | 7.30-8.00 a.m. | Sight setting | pars. 123-127 | and loadings | ------------------ | | 8.00-8.30 a.m. | | pars. 159-198 | ====================|====================|================== | | 9.30-10.30 a.m. | | pars. 35-51 Tuesday, Sept. 11 | Same as for Monday | Sight setting | | and loadings ====================|====================|================== Wednesday, Sept. 12 | 7.00-8.00 a.m. | 8.30-9.30 p.m. | pars. 199-211 | pars. 35-57 | ------------------ | Sight setting | 8.00-8.30 a.m. | and loadings | pars. 159-198 | ====================|====================|================== | 7.00-8.00 a.m. | Thursday, Sept. 13 | pars. 199-224 | 10.00-11.00 a.m. | ------------------ | pars. 35-60 | 8.00-8.30 a.m. | Sight setting | pars. 159-198 | and loadings ====================|====================|================== | 7.00-8.30 a.m. | 8.30-9.30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 14 | pars. 159-224 | pars. 35-61 | | Sight setting | | and loadings ====================|====================|================== Saturday, Sept. 15 | As prescribed by Senior Instructors. ============================================================

Proportional Representation, 1911

Source: Proportional Representation (1911), Pg 268, 350.png DP Project Page: projectID3f00babfd9e45 Post to PG: etext9630 View Original Scan Image: open library system Contributed by debrastorr in forumpost:35471	Interesting Features: Long column headings extracted into a Legend. Columns D+E, F+G, H+I combined and data transposed into rows to save on table width.
GENERAL ELECTION, 1895 Table headings: Col A: Members Col B: Registered Electors Col C: Proportionate Number of Members Col D: Members - Liberal, Labour and Irish Col E: Members - Conservatives Col F: Electorate of Constituencies held by - Liberal, Labour, and Irish Nationalists Col G: Electorate of Constituencies held by - Conservative Col H: Voters - Liberal, Labour, and Irish Nationalist Col I: Voters - Conservative Col J: Majority - Actual Col K: Majority - With equal Single Member Constituencies Col L: Majority - Under Proportional Representation. A B C DE FG HI J K L Prop Memb Electorate Voters Majority Memb Elect Memb Act Eq PR Metropolis 60 573,141 61 LLI 8 70,056 161,328 Con 52 503,085 242,999 44 47 13 England: South-East 48 472,725 50 LLI 2 24,057 152,213 Con 46 448,668 217,096 44 44 8 S.Midland 38 358,501 38 LLI 3 30,569 116,143 Con 35 327,932 164,052 32 32 6 East 29 294,153 31 LLI 8 70,467 101,736 Con 21 223,686 122,999 13 15 3 South-West 40 330,670 35 LLI 10 76,141 124,852 Con 30 254,529 144,435 20 19 3 W.Midland 58 589,881 63 LLI 9 85,544 195,545 Con 49 504,337 259,382 40 45 9 N.Midland 34 351,792 37 LLI 16 186,167 143,142 1 Con 18 165,625 149,436 2 1 North-West 70 728,292 78 LLI 10 114,035 273,585 Con 60 614,257 332,101 50 54 8 Yorkshire 52 565,799 61 LLI 28 317,932 238,032 4 7 1 Con 24 247,867 225,871 North 32 339,289 36 LLI 20 222,202 145,085 8 12 2 Con 12 117,087 124,697 ENGLAND 461 4,604,243 490 LLI 114 1,197,170 1,652,261 Con 347 3,407,073 1,983,068 233 236 48 Wales and Monmouth 34 320,532 34 LLI 25 241,750 148,552 16 18 6 Con 9 78,782 108,036 Scotland 72 636,106 68 LLI 39 335,143 243,425 6 4 2 Con 33 300,963 234,138 Subtotal 567 5,560,881 592 LLI 178 1,774,068 2,044,238 Con 389 3,786,818 2,325,242 211 214 40 Ireland 103 727,562 78 LLI 82 549,467 317,910 61 42 28 Con 21 178,095 154,379 Total 670 6,292,443 670 LLI 260 2,323,530 2,362,148 Con 410 3,964,913 2,479,621 150 172 12 Majority 150 1,641,383 117,473

The Navy in the Civil War

Source: The Navy in the Civil War (1883), Pg 229, 237.png DP Project Page: projectID41668705cf8ce Post to PG: In post-processing View Original Scan Image: Link from project page Contributed by Magda in forumpost:128759	Interesting Features:
MONITORS--STARBOARD COLUMN. Tecumseh 1,034 tons, 2[1] guns, Commander T.A.M. Craven. Manhattan 1,034 " 2 " " J.W.A. Nicholson. Winnebago 970 " 4 " " Thomas H. Stevens. Chickasaw 970 " 4 " Lieut.-Com'r George H. Perkins. WOODEN SHIPS--PORT COLUMN. {Brooklyn 2,070 tons, 24 guns, Captain James Alden. {Octorara 829 " 6 " Lieut.-Com'r Chas. H. Greene. {Hartford 1,900 " 21 " {Rear-Admiral David G. Farragut, { {Captain Percival Drayton. {Metacomet 974 " 6 " Lieut.-Com'r Jas. B. Jouett. {Richmond 1,929 " 20 " Captain Thornton A. Jenkins. {Port Royal 805 " 6 " Lieut.-Com'r Bancroft Gherardi. {Lackawanna 1,533 " 8 " Captain John B. Marchand. {Seminole 801 " 8 " Commander Edward Donaldson. {Monongahela 1,378 " 8 " Commander James H. Strong. {Kennebec 507 " 5 " Lieut.-Com'r Wm. P. McCann. {Ossipee 1,240 " 11 " Commander William B. Le Roy. {Itasca 507 " 5 " Lieut.-Com'r George Brown. {Oneida 1,032 " 9 " Commander J.R.M. Mullany. {Galena 738 " 10 " Lieut.-Com'r Clark H. Wells.

The Navy in the Civil War (long column headings)

Source: The Navy in the Civil War (1883), Pg 253, 261.png DP Project Page: projectID41668705cf8ce Post to PG: In post-processing View Original Scan Image: Link from project page Contributed by:	Interesting Features: Long headings, originally set vertically now arranged as staggered rows.
Top portion of image showing heading detail:
<sc>Batteries (except Howitzers) of Mississippi Squadron, January, 1863.</sc> -------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-------------- |XI-in. sm.-bore | |IX-in. sm.-bore | | |VIII-in. sm.-bore | | | |42-pdr. rifled <sc>Names</sc> | | | | |32-pdr. sm.-bore | | | | | |100-pdr. rifled | | | | | | |80-pdr. rifled | | | | | | | |50-pdr rifled | | | | | | | | |30-pdr. rifled | | | | | | | | | |20-pdr. rifled -------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-------------- Benton | | 8| | | 4| 2| | 2| | Cairo | | | 3| 1| 6| | | | 1| Carondelet | | 3| 4| 1| 1| | | 1| 1| Cincinnati | | 3| 2| | 6| | | | 2| DeKalb[1] | | | 4| | 12| | | | | 2 Louisville | | 2| 2| | 6| | | | 2| ....

Spalding's Baseball Guide 1895 (long column headings)

Source: Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book 1895, pg. 84, 069.png DP Project Page: projectID3e9e9e2b70d10 Post to PG: etext9916 View Original Scan Image: open library system Contributed by big_bill in forumpost:34786 Table attributed to scott.craig	Interesting Features: As contributed to forum, long vertical headings were arranged as staggered rows. In PG etext, post-processor opted to arrange headings vertically.
As contributed to gallery of tables in forum: WASHINGTON| Victories and defeats |G|G | | EASTERN CLUBS. | WESTERN CLUBS. |r|r vs. | | | |a|a | |Baltimore. |Cleveland. |n|n | | |New York. | |Pittsburgh. |d|d | | | |Boston. | | |Chicago. | | | | | | |Philadelphia.| | | |St. Louis. |T|% | | | | | |Brooklyn. | | | | |Cincinnatti. |o|a | | | | | | |Totals.| | | | | |Louisville.|t|g | | | | | | | | % | | | | | | |Totals. |a|e | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | % |l| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |s| --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mullarsky |W| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0|.000| 1| 0| 1| 0| 0| 0| 2|.667| 2|.667 |L| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| | 0| 0| 0| 1| 0| 0| 1| | 1| Maul |W| 1| 0| 1| 1| 1| 4|.267| 1| 1| 1| 0| 2| 2| 7|.636|11|.423 |L| 2| 3| 3| 2| 1|11| | 0| 1| 1| 1| 1| 0| 4| |15| Mercer |W| 0| 0| 2| 2| 1| 5|.294| 0| 3| 1| 2| 1| 4|11|.500|16|.410 |L| 4| 3| 1| 0| 4|12| | 4| 2| 1| 1| 2| 1|11| |23| .... As re-arranged by Post-processor (and now on PG etext): --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EASTERN CLUBS WESTERN CLUBS. P G h G r i P C L r a B l C i i o a n W a N a B l t S n u n d o l e d r P e t C t c i P d P WASHINGTON n t w B e o e v s h . i s e e / i o l o T r e b i L n v T r T r vs. L m Y s p k o c l u c o n i o c o c o o o t h l t e a r a u a l t e t e s r r o i y a n n g g i t l a n a n Pitchers t e k n a n l t d h o s i e l t l t --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mullarsky W 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 .667 2 .667 L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 Maul W 1 0 1 1 1 4 .267 1 1 1 0 2 2 7 .636 11 .423 L 2 3 3 2 1 11 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 15 Mercer W 0 0 2 2 1 5 .294 0 3 1 2 1 4 11 .500 16 .410 L 4 3 1 0 4 12 4 2 1 1 2 1 11 23

The Palace of Pleasure, v.1 (family tree)

Source: The Palace of Pleasure, v.1 047.png DP Project Page: projectID3fd4e5290dfe6 Post to PG: etext20241 View Original Scan Image: open library system Suggested by nola and modified by JHowse in forumpost:263935	Interesting Features: Example shown here is what was suggested in the forum. Final etext at PG is in a different format with main line of descent shown first in skeleton form, and full text given in list form.
William Painter[46a] = Dorothy, daughter of Twedall, parish of | of ---- Bonham, Gillingham, the author | of Cowling. Ob. Ob. 1594 | Oct. 19, 1617, | Æt. 80. | ---+---------------+------------+------+----------+---------------------+ | | | | | Dorothy=John Helena=John | Catherine= ---- Champ, Anna. Bagenhall Hornby | Co. Suff. [46b] | ----------------------- | Nathaniel=Joanna=John Anthony=Catherine, Partrich Orwell | coheiress of | Robt. Harris, | Master in | Chancery. | | William of = Elizabeth, daughter Gillingham, died | of Walter Hickman, about the time of | of Kew, Co. Surrey, the restoration | Esq. relict of George of Charles II. | Allington, jun. | +------------------------+--------+----------------+ | | | Allington= Elizabeth.[46c] Anna[46c] | | Robert, = Eleanora, youngest daughter who obtained an act of Sir Thomas Seyliard, of parliament to Bart. buried at Westerham. alienate the manors of Twedall and East Court.

Discovery of Witches (family tree)

Source: Pott's Discovery of Witches 294.png DP Project Page: projectID41799754bbba2 Post to PG: etext18253 View Original Scan Image: open library system Contributed by JHowse, from PP Examples - Tables	Interesting Features: A complex table with a lot of descriptive text.
Elizabeth Sothernes, alias Old Demdike, died in prison in 1612, about 80 years old. 1 | 2 ------------------------------ | | Christopher = Eliz. Elizabeth, executed = John Device, or Howgate. Both of at Lancaster, | Davies, supposed them were reputed 1612. | to have been bewitched to be at the witches | to death, meeting on Good | by Widow Chattox, Friday, 1612, but | because he had not were not indicted. | paid her his yearly Perhaps they were | aghen dole of meal. the "one Holgate | and his wife" mentioned | amongst the | witches in 1633. | 1 2 | 3 --------------------------------------------------- | | | James Device, or Alizon, executed Jennet, 9 years old Davies, executed at at Lancaster in 1612. in 1612, and an evidence Lancaster in 1612. in the present trial. Condemned herself, along with 16 other persons, for witchcraft, in 1633, when she appears to have been unmarried, but not executed. Anne Whittle, alias Chattox, executed at Lancaster, 1612, about 80 years old. | Anne, executed = Thomas Redferne. in 1612. | | Mary.

Manual of Surgery (wide family tree)

Source: Manual of Surgery 6th ed.: General Surgery 292.png DP ProjectPage:projectID408f83a5a8efd Post to PG: etext 17921 View Original Scan Image: open library system Contributed by laurawisewell in forumpost:283878 Table attributed to JHowse	Interesting Features: A wide family tree originally in landscape layout shrunk to within the 75 character limit
Great-Great-Grandmother Great-Great-Grandfather Mrs D. (Lancashire) F M (History not known .| | as to bleeding) .| | .+----------+-------+ ............| .| ....| .+---------+--------+ Great-Grandmother .| | | (Married three .F MB MB times) .| .| .| By First Husband .| By Second By Third ..............| Husband Husband +-----------+------------+----------+-------+-------+-----------+------+ | .| | | +-------+-----------+------+ M .F F F | | +------+ | .| | | MB F Died in No Died Grandmother | | | Childbed Family æt. .| | +-----------+ +----+--- 70 .| +------+ |had family | | .| | | |but history| | .| MB MB |not known | MB .| .| .|............................. +-----+----------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+ | | | | |. | | | | | | |. | | M M M MB F. F F | |. | | | Mother +--+--+---+--+--+ | +----+ |. | | | | | | | | | |. M M MB F F F | M F |. | Not Married |. +---+---+---+---+ |. | | | | | |. MB M MB M M .............|. +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | .| .| | | | | .|* .|* | | | M MB MB F F F F = Females. M = Males (not bleeders). MB = Males (bleeders) ** the patients observed by the authors. The dotted line shows the transmission of the disease to our patients through four generations.

Arizona Ghost Trails (wide table of climate data)

Source: Arizona Ghost Trails DP ProjectPage:projectID40de65da5dd8b Post to PG: In post-processing View Original Scan Image: link from project page Contributed by TheEileen in forumpost:283866 Table attributed to TheEileen	Interesting Features: A very wide, dense table of climate data. Divided into 3 plaintext sections, each less than 75 characters wide. First column repeated in each section to help readers "join up" mentally. Use of || (like in the image) as column division for greater clarity. Notes under table are placed outside /* */ tags as the text is wrappable. This example will be updated when the etext is posted.
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/* Temperatures and Rainfall. A = Temperature. B = Rainfall. ======================================================================= | <sc>Camp || Fort || Camp || Camp || |Apache.|| Bowie. || Grant. || Lowell.</sc> || ----------+-------||---------------||---------------||---------------|| | A || A | B || A | B || A | B || ----------+-------||-------|-------||-------|-------||-------|-------|| | Deg. || Deg. | Inch. || Deg. | Inch. || Deg. | Inch. || | || | || | || | || July | 60-104|| 71-103| 0.50 || 58-109| 1.70 || 39-113| 0.08 || August | 66- 88|| 64- 97| 1.34 || 55-102| 5.20 || 46-104| 2.73 || September | 52- 92|| 67- 99| 0.01 || 53- 99| 2.50 || 52-103| 0.62 || October | 28- 92|| 42- 96| 0.03 || 35-100| 0.46 || 21-101| 0.00 || November | 25- 81|| 33- 85| 1.12 || 31- 81| 3.38 || 30- 91| 1.32 || December | 6- 62|| 20- 70| 2.02 || 21 82| 1.75 || 25- 78| 0.97 || January | 6- 68|| 21- 67| 2.33 || 20- 85| 1.58 || 19- 78| 1.76 || February | 10- 65|| 20- 67| 5.40 || 16- 80| 2.87 || 21- 75| 1.66 || March | 18- 72|| 32- 79| 1.50 || 28- 86| 2.45 || 30- 79| 1.19 || April | 31- 88|| 32- 82| 0.35 || 30- 93| 0.58 || 34- 97| 0.43 || May | 38- 94|| 48-100| 0.00 || 30-101| 0.07 || 42-103| 0.07 || June | 57-101|| 67-100| 0.00 || 54-105| 0.00 || 44-108| 0.00 || ----------|-------||-------|-------||-------|-------||-------|-------|| | || | 14.60 || | 22.54 || | 10.83 || ==========|=======||=======|=======||=======|=======||=======|=======|| [**continued] =============================================================================== | <sc>Camp || Camp || Camp || Fort || | Mcdowell. || Mojave. || Verde. || Whipple.</sc> || Yuma, | | || || || (Prescott). || (Yuma City). || ----------+---------------||---------------||---------------||---------------|| | A | B || A | B || A | B || A | B || ----------+-------|-------||-------|-------||-------|-------||-------|-------|| | Deg. | Inch. || Deg. | Inch. || Deg. | Inch. || Deg. | Inch. || | | || | || | || | || July | 72-113| 0.00 || 47-118| 0.00 || 48-113| 0.14 || 65- 91| 1.56 || August | 65-108| 0.56 || 52-116| 3.80 || 58-102| 2.52 || 64- 85| 4.78 || September | 54-110| 0.00 || 45-108| 0.00 || 41- 97| 0.26 || 50- 82| 0.30 || October | 33-108| 0.00 || 27-105| 0.00 || 21- 95| 0.00 || 33- 81| 0.00 || November | 33- 99| 0.21 || 36- 89| 0.50 || 20- 74| 0.74 || 29- 72| 0.80 || December | 27- 83| 4.70 || 29- 67| 2.80 || 6- 57| 3.26 || 10- 65| 2.55 || January | 24- 83| 3.10 || 27- 70| 0.19 || 5- 59| 2.65 || 17- 67| 5.51 || February | 18- 78| 2.86 || 29- 69| 5.00 || 12- 60| 2.05 || 10- 55| 5.68 || March | 31- 79| 1.06 || 39- 80| 0.20 || 19- 72| 1.05 || 20- 65| 3.56 || April | 43- 97| 1.30 || 54- 96| 0.10 || 27- 87| 1.48 || 34- 75| 1.70 || May | 43-105| 0.30 || 63-107| 0.90 || 34-102| 0.08 || 41- 82| 0.65 || June | 54-114| 0.00 || 75-111| 0.00 || 43-107| 0.00 || 55- 88| 0.00 || ----------|-------|-------||-------|-------||-------|-------||-------|-------|| | | 14.09 || | 13.40 || | 14.19 || | 27.09 || ==========|=======|=======||=======|=======||=======|=======||=======|=======|| [**continued] ============================ | <sc> Fort || | Yuma.</sc> || | Yuma City). || ----------+---------------|| | A | B || ----------+-------|-------|| | Deg. | Inch. || | | || July | 69-112| 0.00 || August | 71-106| 1.60 || September | 59-104| 0.00 || October | 48-100| 0.00 || November | 46- 86| 0.00 || December | 39- 61| 0.64 || January | 37- 72| 0.55 || February | 35- 70| 0.85 || March | 40- 82| 0.20 || April | 45- 95| 0.00 || May | 50-102| 0.00 || June | 66-108| 0.00 || ----------|-------|-------|| | | 3.84 || ==========|=======|=======|| */ At Florence, July, 1877, the thermometer stood at 100 to 115 deg. In Gila Valley, near the mouth of San Pedro, August and September, 1876, 50 deg. at sunrise; 105 deg. at 2 <sc>P. M.</sc>; early in October, 30 deg. at sunrise--90 deg. at 2 P. M.; close of October, 15 deg. at sunrise--90 deg. at 2 <sc>P. M.</sc> In Gila Valley, on the New Mexico and Arizona line, October 17th, 1876, at sunrise, 28 deg.--at base of mountain range, ten miles distant, 40 deg.; Oct. 18th, at sunrise, 14 deg.--4,500 feet altitude; Oct. 19th, at sunrise, 40 deg.--5,200 feet altitude. At Mineral Peak, during June and July, 1877, the thermometer repeatedly reached 100 deg. August 8th to 13th, 1877, 30 miles below Sunset Crossing, on the Colorado Chiquito, the thermometer stood, at sunrise, 62 to 64 deg.; at 2 <sc>P. M.</sc> 82 to 85 deg.; at sunset, 71 to 75 deg.--3,700 feet above sea level.