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-<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 &#8220;<code>15cm</code>&#8221;
-or &#8220;<code>\</code><code>columnwidth</code>&#8221; 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&#8217;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&#8217;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
-&#8220;balancing&#8221; 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 &#8220;naturally&#8221; (i.e., on a piece of paper of unlimited width), and
-allocates space to each column accordingly. There are &#8220;sanity
-checks&#8221; so that really large entries don&#8217;t cause everything else to
-collapse into nothingness (there&#8217;s a &#8220;maximum width&#8221; that any column
-can exert), and so that tiny entries can&#8217;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
-&#8220;side-effects&#8221; (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> package combines the features of the
-<i>longtable</i> and <i>tabularx</i> packages. It&#8217;s important
-to read the documentation, since usage is distinctly odd; the
-distribution contains no more than a file <i>ltxtable.tex</i>, which you
-should process using LaTeX. Processing will give you a <i>.sty</i>
-file as well as the <i>.dvi</i> or <i>.pdf</i> output containing the
-documentation.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>ltxtable.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle.zip">macros/latex/contrib/carlisle</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/ltxtable.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>tabularx.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/tabularx.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>tabulary.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tabulary.zip">macros/latex/contrib/tabulary</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tabulary/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/tabulary.html">catalogue entry</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>
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