Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Tabularx: What is wrong? !!!

[mirou]

Hi all,

Well insanity is very near my way, could anyone tell me what is wrong with the following tabularx code? I have spent exactly 2 full dats trying and retrying and frankly I am very bear insanity. I have to submit something tomorrow that I haven't even started just because I was eager to set the table correctly (2 full days)...
Have a look:

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\documentclass[parskip]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[frenchb] {babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\selectlanguage{frenchb} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{supertabular}
\usepackage{rotating}
\setlength{\parskip}{1.3ex plus 0.2ex minus 0.2ex}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{ltxtable}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabularx}{{\linewidth}{>{\hsize=.8\hsize}X>{\hsize=1.2\hsize}X}
\caption{%%%%%}
\hline
%%%% & \begin{itemize} \item %%%%. 
\item %%%%%%.
\item %%%%%
\end{itemize} \\
\hline
%%%% & \begin{itemize} \item %%%%%
\item %%%%%
\item %%%%% 
\end{itemize} \\
\hline
\end{ltabularx}
\label{%%%%%}
\end{table}

When compiling it gives me the following error:paragraph ended before \tabularx was completed...
I don't inderstand and the file won't compile anymore......Plsssssss help

[localghost]

Please check your examples for completeness and minimal content. The sample as provided is not compilable.

You have and additional opening brace in the table declaration. The code below should work as expected (and contains some tweaks).

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\documentclass[%
  captions=tableabove,
  parskip=half
]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{booktabs,tabularx}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \begin{table}
    \caption{Table caption}\label{tab:table}
    \centering
    \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{>{\hsize=.8\hsize}X>{\hsize=1.2\hsize}X} \toprule
      \blindtext & \blindtext \\ \midrule
      \blindtext & \blindtext \\ \bottomrule
    \end{tabularx}
  \end{table}
\end{document}

Thorsten

[mirou]

Well thank you so much. That was helpful to a great extent. I am still facing 2 problems while comiling:
1) The table runs over the page's page number and the rest of it is not visible even on the next page
2) the centering affects all the paragraphs that belong to that section

Could you tell me how to possibly fix those 2 issues?
Thanks for your support and prompt help...

[localghost]

Try ltablex or ltxtable. You already used the latter one in your example. But since it wasn't clear that your table would go over multiple pages, I simply dropped it.