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From: blu@millipore.com (Brian Utterback)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How wide are the columns?
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.164400.1393@millipore.com>
Date: 23 Oct 90 16:44:00 GMT
Organization: Millipore Corporation
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Okay, all you LaTeX gurus, I have what I hope is a simple question.  I need
to produce a series of small tables such that each table has one line of 
column headings and then several rows.  Each row has two columns.  Like this

    ---------------
    head1  |head2
    ---------------
    data11 |data12
    data21 |data22
    ---------------

Real simple, huh?  The only thing is that the data in this case is an english 
sentence which will often be long enough to case a very overfull hbox.  I could
specify the p parameter to the tabular to give the widths, but what I really 
want is a maximum width. And what's more, the tables appear in a enumerate 
environment, so I would like the maximum width to scale with the available
width.  That is to say, the maximum width of the table should be smaller the
greater the depth.  The two columns probably should be equal widths, but I 
am not a degigner and I may be wrong.




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