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| author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2005-12-29 00:31:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2005-12-29 00:31:48 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-fixwidtab.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-fixwidtab.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..7d32ef10711 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-fixwidtab.html @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label fixwidtab</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Fixed-width tables</h3> +<p>There are two basic techniques for making fixed-width tables in +LaTeX: you can make the gaps between the columns stretch, or you +can stretch particular cells in the table. +<p>Basic LaTeX can make the gaps stretch: the <code>tabular*</code> +environment takes an extra argument (before the <code>clpr</code> layout one) +which takes a length specification: you can say things like "<code>15cm</code>" +or "<code>\</code><code>columnwidth</code>" here. You must also have an <code>\</code><code>extracolsep</code> +command in the <code>clpr</code> layout argument, inside an <code>@</code> directive. So, +for example, one might have +<pre> +\begin{tabular*}{\columnwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}lllr} +</pre> + +The <code>\</code><code>extracolsep</code> applies to all inter-column gaps to its right as +well; if you don't want all gaps stretched, add +<code>\</code><code>extracolsep{0pt}</code> to cancel the original. +<p>The <i>tabularx</i> package defines an extra <code>clpr</code> column +specification, <code>X</code>; <code>X</code> columns behave as <code>p</code> columns which expand to +fill the space available. If there's more than one <code>X</code> column in a +table, the spare space is distributed between them. +<p>The <i>tabulary</i> package (by the same author) provides a way of +"balancing" the space taken by the columns of a table. The package +defines column specifications <code>C</code>, <code>L</code>, <code>R</code> and <code>J</code>, giving, +respectively, centred, left, right and fully-justified versions of +space-sharing columns. The package examines how long each column would +be "naturally" (i.e., on a piece of paper of unlimited width), and +allocates space to each column accordingly. There are "sanity +checks" so that really large entries don't cause everything else to +collapse into nothingness (there's a "maximum width" that any column +can exert), and so that tiny entries can't get smaller than a +specified minimum. Of course, all this work means that the package +has to typeset each row several times, so things that leave +"side-effects" (for example, a counter used to produce a row-number +somewhere) are inevitably unreliable, and should not even be tried. +<p>The <i>ltxtable</i> combines the features of the +<i>longtable</i> and <i>tabularx</i> packages: it's important to +read the documentation, since usage is distinctly odd. +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>ltxtable.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle.zip">macros/latex/contrib/carlisle</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>tabularx.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>tabulary.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle.zip">macros/latex/contrib/carlisle</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle/">browse</a>) +</dl> +<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fixwidtab">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fixwidtab</a> +</body> |