New subject: LaTeX editing made easy

10 Jan 2003

I have included the code for a table I am working on for another class;
however I'm having two problems.  The second and third columns contain the
same number of characters yet one is way larger than the other.  I want
them to be the same size.

Second problem is trying to include footnotes in the table.  Using
\footnotemark is not working within the caption of the chart?

Any help would be appreciated as I am about 3 or 4 frustrating errors away
from doing the document in Word Perfect.

Thanks,

Andrew

\documentclass{article}

%==decimal align package==%
\usepackage{dcolumn}
\newcolumntype{.}{D{.}{.}{-1}}
\newcolumntype{d}[1]{D{.}{.}{#1}}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[htb]
\caption{Political Campaign Services Rendered by Public Relations Counseling
Frims in Connection with Nomination and Election Camaigns for Public Office,
1952-1957, Responses from 130 Firms \footnotemark}
\begin{center}

\begin{tabular}{l|.|.}
\hline

&\multicolumn{2}{|c}{Firms Performing Indicated}\\
\multicolumn{1}{c|}{Service} &\multicolumn{2}{|c}{Service(of 130 Responding)}\\
\cline{2-3}

&\multicolumn{1}{|c|}{No.} &\multicolumn{1}{|c}{Percent\footnotemark}\\ \hline
Service of Some Kind & 78 & 60\\
Type of service performed:& &\\
\hspace{.3in} Arrangement of adverstising space or air time & 57 & 44\\
\hspace{.3in} Preparation of publicity materials, speech writing, etc. &66&51\\
\hspace{.3in} Counseling on strategy or tactics of campaign issues & 70 & 54\\
\hspace{.3in} Fundraising & 36 & 28\\
\hspace{.3in} Over-all campaign management & 41 & 32\\
\hspace{.3in} Other & 14& 11\\
Rendered service for more than one political party& 28 & 22\\\hline

\end{tabular}

\end{center}
\label{datsum}
\end{table}
\end{document}

LaTeX table formatting (unrelated to final)