Page Layout ⇒ How to adjust margins where tables are too wide

[mazatlanmexico]

Hi:
I wonder if someone can help me figure out how to adjust the margins of a page where tables are too wide. I tried the geometry package in the preamble:
\usepackage[hmargin=1in,vmargin=1in]{geometry}
Then I changed to:
\newgeometry{hmargin={1cm}} to try to fit the table but it has no effect
and besides the command gets printed when the pdf is generated.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{ctable}
\title{How to adjust margins where tables are too wide}
\usepackage{Sweave}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{quote}
I would like every page to have 1in margins except the page with a wide table.\\
Page with table should be 1cm horizontal margin.
\end{quote}
\newpage
\begin{landscape}
\ctable[caption={Preliminary }]{ccccccccc}{}
{\FL
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Date}&
\multicolumn{1}{c}{RFlows(cfs)}\tmark[1]&
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Temp(C)}&
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Turbs(NTU)}&
\multicolumn{1}{c}{BY09.Winter}&
\multicolumn{1}{c}{BY09.Spring}&
\multicolumn{1}{c}{BY09.Fall}&
\multicolumn{1}{c}{BY09.LateFall}&
\multicolumn{1}{c}{BY10.Steelhead}\tabularnewline
\hline
3/12/2010&6,780&12.8&4.2&33 (119 - 119)&33 (71 - 71)&890 (32 - 47)&0 ( - )&0 ( - ) \\
3/13/2010&11,400&13.4&-&-&-&-&-&- \\
\FL
}
\end{landscape}

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you could use \makebox to put the wide table into a box fitting to the text width: Centering wide tables or figures.

Stefan

[mazatlanmexico]

Thanks Stefan, I was able to figure it out with the geometry package.

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\newgeometry{vmargin={1cm}}
\restoregeometry

[localghost]

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