General ⇒ Help for table fitting

[JoKo]

Hi again,

I am desperately trying to make some tables to fit my text. As I am using B5 paper and the margins are huge, it seems really impossible to put the tables I want.

Do you have any tips, any experience that could help me?


Thanks in advance,

JoKo

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi JoKo,

what exactly is the problem?
Because you've mentioned the margins, are the tables just too wide?

Stefan

[JoKo]

Yes, the tables are too wide, indeed, and text keeps going out of the page...


P.S.: I'm glad you remember my problem, you, guys, have a great community here!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I've thought the other problem was solved.
Without resizing one could center the table in relation to the text. But perhaps do you like to resize the table to fit exactly to the text margins?

Stefan

[JoKo]

This is what I'm thinking. In general, I don't mind if my cells have more than one row, I just don't like using p{width}, because I am not so sure about the width...

As for the other problem, it's really solved, but most of my tables are too wide to fit even if I'm adjusting the width.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Did you try tabularx already? With tabularx you can produce tables that fit exactly to \textwidth and use X columns automatically adjusting their widths to fit.

Stefan

[JoKo]

Thanks a lot, I had already tried tabularx, but without X instead of p/r/c/l (I hadn't read the manual). Now I know ...

Hmm, and maybe with the help of adjustwidth from the previous posts, I'll get a more beautiful result.