Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Line Break in Table Cells spanning multiple Rows

[fboehlandt]

Hello everyone,

I have a problem concerning line breaks when using multirow. The 'natural' width * ignores the table definitions for column width. The text overlaps the adjacent column. A dummy solution is to enter a column width manually based on what looks good after compilation. This is clearly not ideal. Is there no way to invoke the column width specification from within multirow? I know this was posted before but I could not find a satisfactory answer.

P.S.: You may ignore the \url parts. The line breaks are working fine

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

% visualize page dimensions:
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{booktabs, multicol, multirow}
\usepackage[hyphens]{url}

% table packages
\usepackage{array,booktabs,tabularx}

\begin{document}
  \newcolumntype{R}{>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}X}%

  \begin{table}
    \caption{Frequency distribution of returns}
    \centering
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}R*{9}{X}@{}}
      \toprule
      header1 & header2 \\
      \midrule
      \multirow{4}{*}{a very long cell content that will be much wider than the specified column width of .5 table width}  & content2: \\
      & \url{http://www.hedge-fund-analysis.net} \\
      & WML: \\
      & \url{http://www.hedge-fund-analysis.net} \\
      \\
      \bottomrule
    \end{tabularx}
  \end{table}
\end{document}

[localghost]

Wherever line breaks are required, a \parbox (← Link!) with a certain width can be helpful.


Thorsten