LaTeX forum ⇒ Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ unexpected wide column in longtable

[jibbah]

Hi, I did a long table with 57 columns but I get a formatting I am not quit satisfied with, with the 5th column being much broader than the others, although I set it to the same width as the others. What is happening here?
I appended the example file and the pdf resulting. This example contains only two lines (the table has 83 lines otherwise).

[Johannes_B]

Welcome to the forum,
i can reproduce your issue, but i currently have no idea why i is happening.

Have you thought about a slightly different table design? I guess the final result will be quite hard to read.

[jibbah]

Hi Johannes_B, I resolved the problem by myself: the multicolumn header and footnote to be displayed on each page after the first one were spread over more columns than I actually have, i.e. I had \multicolumn{59}{r}{\textit{Continued from previous page}} for 57 columns. I is a bit odd though, since commenting out the header and then removing commenting mark will give a different output.
I did not see any alternative design beside the one where 1.000 and 0.000 are replaced by full numbers (file appended here), but the output is a bit odd.

[rais]

I'm not sure what you expect, but p{0.02cm} is way too small to hold any text: 0.02 cm = 0.2 mm is less than 8/1000 of an inch (around 0.57 pt).
Which means your text protrudes into the space that's between the columns (\tabcolsep worth on each side of each column).

KR
Rainer

[jibbah]

text is displayed vertically in these columns, so it fits. The pdf output looks also nice.