Por que o \tikzmark não funciona antes do \multicolumn?

Question

\tikzmarksempre funciona antes e depois de uma única célula ou a \multirowe também depois de a \multicolumn.

Masantesa \multicolumndá o erro:

! Misplaced \omit.
\multispan ->\omit 
                   \@multispan 
l.55        \tikzmark{cmc}\multicolumn{2}{c}{A and B}
                                                 & C\tikzmark{dmc} \\
I expect to see \omit only after tab marks or the \cr of
an alignment. Proceed, and I'll ignore this case.

Aqui está um MWE:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{tikzmark, calc}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{multirow}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.4}
\begin{document}
    All these ones work:

    \begin{tabular}{ccc}
        \tikzmark{a}A & B & \tikzmark{b}C \\ 
        D & E & F \\
    \end{tabular}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
        \draw (pic cs:a) -- (pic cs:b);
    \end{tikzpicture}

    \begin{tabular}{ccc}
        A\tikzmark{c} & B & C\tikzmark{d} \\ 
        D & E & F \\
    \end{tabular}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
    \draw (pic cs:c) -- (pic cs:d);
    \end{tikzpicture}

    \begin{tabular}{ccc}
        \tikzmark{amr}\multirow{2}{*}{A and D} & B & \tikzmark{bmr}C \\ 
        & E & F\\
    \end{tabular}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
        \draw (pic cs:amr) -- (pic cs:bmr);
    \end{tikzpicture}

    \begin{tabular}{ccc}
        \multirow{2}{*}{A and D}\tikzmark{cmr} & B & C\tikzmark{dmr} \\ 
        & E & F\\
    \end{tabular}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
        \draw (pic cs:cmr) -- (pic cs:dmr);
    \end{tikzpicture}

    \begin{tabular}{ccc}
        \multicolumn{2}{c}{A and B}\tikzmark{amc} & C\tikzmark{bmc} \\ 
        D & E & F \\
    \end{tabular}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
        \draw (pic cs:amc) -- (pic cs:bmc);
    \end{tikzpicture}

    But this one doesn't work:

    \begin{tabular}{ccc}
        \tikzmark{cmc}\multicolumn{2}{c}{A and B} & C\tikzmark{dmc} \\ 
        D & E & F \\
    \end{tabular}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
    \draw (pic cs:cmc) -- (pic cs:dmc);
    \end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Answer 1

Você deve colocar \tikzmarkdentro do, \multicolumnpois conta como texto (\null). \multirowOTOH apenas sobrepõe o texto nas próximas linhas, assumindo um espaçamento constante entre linhas. É aproximadamente o mesmo que \smash{\begin{tabular}[t]...\end{tabular}}.

Observe que se \multicolumnfor mais largo que as duas colunas, o \hfills não será necessário.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{tikzmark, calc}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{multirow}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.4}
\begin{document}
    \begin{tabular}{ccc}
        \multicolumn{2}{c}{\tikzmark{cmc}\hfill A and B\hfill\null} & C\tikzmark{dmc} \\ 
        D wider & E & F \\
    \end{tabular}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
    \draw (pic cs:cmc) -- (pic cs:dmc);
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}