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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label fixwidtab</title>
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<h3>Fixed-width tables</h3>
-<p>There are two basic techniques for making fixed-width tables in
+<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>
+<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>
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ for example, one might have
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
+<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
+<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
@@ -36,13 +36,17 @@ 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> 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.
+<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>)
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-<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>
+<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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