Using tables with LaTeX is a little tricky. The good thing is, once you get the hang of it, it’s really very clean. Here’s a crash-tutorial on how to use tables.
We want to make this table:
| Cat/Term | apple | recipe | pudding |
| COOKING | 1 | 0.37 | 0.37 |
| SOCCER | 0 | 0 | 0 |
And here’s the code to do it:
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|}
\hline
Cat/Term & apple & recipe & pudding \ \hline
COOKING & 1 & 0.37 & 0.37 \ \hline
SOCCER & 0 & 0 & 0 \ \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Example representation of a user profile}
\label{fig:sampleM}
\end{table}
Most of this is self-explanatory if you know a little LaTeX. I’ll give a short guide on the rest. (Feel free to ask if you have any problems.)
| The { | l | c | c | c | } means that there should be four columns: first one left aligned and the rest centered. Between each column, there should be a line. Try removing one of these pipes to see the difference. |
The first \hline is used to insert a line at the top of the table.
Then, each line represents a row with the ampersands marking the column separations.
Each \hline at the end of rows means there should be a line between the rows. Try removing one of these to see what it does.
Of course, the \ means line break; or in this case, row break.
Hope this helps.