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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 &ldquo;<code>15cm</code>&rdquo;
+or &ldquo;<code>\</code><code>columnwidth</code>&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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
+&ldquo;balancing&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;naturally&rdquo; (i.e., on a piece of paper of unlimited width), and
+allocates space to each column accordingly. There are &ldquo;sanity
+checks&rdquo; so that really large entries don&rsquo;t cause everything else to
+collapse into nothingness (there&rsquo;s a &ldquo;maximum width&rdquo; that any column
+can exert), and so that tiny entries can&rsquo;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
+&ldquo;side-effects&rdquo; (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&rsquo;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="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><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabulary.zip">macros/latex/contrib/tabulary</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabulary.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabulary/">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>