Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Spacing Within A Table

[dward1996]

Hi

I am currently trying to write a table of notation for a project I am working on, and as such want to construct a table with three coumns. One for the notawtion, one for the description, and one for a pare reference. However, I cannot seem to get the final column flush right against the right hand side of the page. I am currently using the tabular* environment:

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\begin{tabular}{clr}
$Aut(G)$ & The automorphism group of $G$ & (\pageref{auto})\\
\end{tabular}

Is there a simple way to addapt this to get the column with the page number in flush agains the right hand side of the page (or at least virtually flush).

[localghost]

Obviously you are trying to create a glossary. And that's definitely a job for the excellent glossaries package.

Nevertheless you can get what you want with only a few modifications to your example.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{mathtools}    % loads »amsmath«
\usepackage{blindtext}

\DeclareMathOperator*{\aut}{Aut}

\begin{document}
  \blindtext

  \medskip
  \noindent
  \begin{tabular*}{\linewidth}{@{}cl@{\extracolsep\fill}r@{}}
    $\aut(G)$ & The automorphism group of $G$ & (\pageref{auto})\\
  \end{tabular*}
\end{document}

The blindtext package is only for producing dummy text thus not part of the solution. Another approach would involve the tabularx package.


Thorsten

[dward1996]

Thank you for an extremely quick and very helpful response.