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From: duchier@cs.yale.edu (Denys Duchier)
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Subject: Re: How wide are the columns?
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Read p185 of the LaTeX manual.  The following code should then become
clear:

\newlength{\length}
\setlength{\length}{0.5\linewidth}
\addtolength{\length}{-2\tabcolsep}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular*}{\linewidth}{|p{\length}|p{\length}|}
...
\end{tabular*}
\end{center}

If you are using Mittelbach's implementation of tabular, you may have
to add the following line:

\addtolength{\length}{-1.5\arrayrulewidth}

--Denys