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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: LaTeX table caption wrap how ?
Keywords: captions tables wrap latex
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Date: 12 Dec 89 18:59:42 GMT
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[Email isn't worth the paper it's printed on . . .]

Just create a macro which puts the tabular in a box and gets its width;
requires diving into TeX (untested) (and sketchy, but should give the
idea if you know plain TeX any; maybe someone else can develop this
better . . .


\newbox\boxbox
\newbox\boxtoo
\newenvironment{boxtab}[1]
	{\def\boxcap{#1} \setbox\boxbox=\bgroup}
	{\egroup \setbox\boxtoo=\vbox{\hsize=\wd\boxbox\boxcap}
	 \begin{table} \boxbox \caption{\boxtoo} \end{table}
	 }

	 \begin{boxtab}{caption}
		this & that \\
		and & more
	 \end{boxtab}
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