Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ tabularx | Specify Width of two right aligned Columns

[MrJingles]

Hi everyone

I'm pretty new to the tabularx package and I haven't been able to find the needed information in its documentation:
My goal is, to create a table with two columns, each of which has a width of 3cm and the contained text must be right aligned:

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\documentclass[a4paper, oneside, final]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\section{start}
\begin{tabularx}{6cm}{|>{\raggedleft}p{3cm}>{\raggedleft}p{3cm}|}
bla1 & bla2 \\
bla3 & bla4 \\
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

it's giving my errors like

Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr.

Would be great if someone could tell me where I went wrong.
Thanks a lot
Cheers
Mischa

[localghost]

You have to restore the function of \\ with the \arraybackslash command for the last column.

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\documentclass[paper=a4]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{array,tabularx}

\begin{document}
  \begin{tabularx}{6cm}{|>{\raggedleft}p{3cm}>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}p{3cm}|}
    bla1 & bla2 \\
    bla3 & bla4 \\
  \end{tabularx}
\end{document}

See Section 7 of the array manual. This package is loaded subsequently by the tabularx package.

And by the way, note the warning in the log file. Your table width is a bit to small. You have to take the separating space between the columns into account.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten