Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Fit wide matrix to page

[Al.x]

Hi,

I'm trying to fit a fairly wide matrix on a page. I've already made it \tiny, and it looks fairly good, but it is still slightly outside my right margin. I saw an example of someone who tried \makebox around a table to fit a wide table, and that seems to work, but I haven't been able to do something similar with my matrix.

Anyway, here's my code (slightly altered to fit):

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\[ \mathcal{Q} = 
\tiny
\left( \begin{array}{ccccccccccccccc}
0.29 & ...(more data)... & 0.52 \\
...(more data)...
0.34 & ...(more data)... & 2.00 \\
\end{array} \right)\] 

This isn't the first time I've run into this type of problem, that is, fitting something that's too wide to a page. I've looked everywhere! Isn't there some package I can use that tells LaTeX to go screw itself and fit something to the center of a page?

Regards,
Alex

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Alex,

welcome to the board!
You could use \resizebox of the graphicx package.

Stefan

[Al.x]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your suggestion, but that isn't what I had in mind. I've already made it as small as possible (if I make it any smaller, the reader is going to need a magnifying glass).

I simply want to center the matrix to the page. Btw, I'm not really sure how you would use \resizebox around the math environment. I gave it a try and the compiler (which is xelatex btw) failed.

Alexander

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Alexander,

have a look at Centering wide tables or figures, that example yould be modified:

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\noindent\makebox[\textwidth]{%
\tiny
\(\displaystyle \mathcal{Q} =
\left( \begin{array}{ccccccccccccccc}
0.29 & ...(more data)... & 0.52 \\
...(more data)...
0.34 & ...(more data)... & 2.00 \\
\end{array} \right)\)}

Stefan

[Al.x]

Well I'll be.... It worked!

Dude. Thanks.

So - small round-off question: why did you change "\[" to "\("? I see that it is necessary, cause it doesn't work with "\[". Is that some fancy math mode?

Alex

[Stefan Kottwitz]

\( ... \) is inline math mode like $...$. \[ ... \] could work for instance together with \parbox or a minipage inside \makebox.

Stefan

[Al.x]

Nice! Haven't seen that before

Have a good one...

Alex