Tables

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Tables are defined with the tabular environment. It has an argument that specifies the number of columns and their formatting. In the simplest case it contains a letter for each column, specifying the alignment as

l	left-aligned
r	right-aligned
c	centered

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A table with 3 columns, first one centered, the other two right-aligned:

\begin{tabular}{crr}

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The body of the table is given by a line of rows, seperated by \\. Each row contains an item for each column, separated by &.

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The simple table above, defining the alignment letters, was produced with:

   \begin{tabular}{ll}
      l  &   left-aligned \\
      r  &   right-aligned \\
      c  &   centered
   \end{tabular}