{tabularx} is a package that defines an environment tabularx, an extension of tabular which has an additional column designator, X, which creates a paragraph-like column whose width automatically expands so that the declared width of the environment is filled.
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Are subcaption and tabularx incompatible?
I know that tex.sx isn't the forum for bug-reporting, but I have a bit of a problem and I'm looking for a technical workaround. The following MWE produces odd labels:
\documentclass{article}
...
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Aligning Decimal Points in Table
I want to align two numbers in two different rows the decimal point.
I do see a link for that here:
Aligning numbers by decimal points in table columns
However, I don't understand how to ...
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Preventing itemize environment to insert initial vertical space
I'm using itemize and tables like the following
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{>{\ttfamily}llX}
\toprule
\textbf{\rmfamily Operator} & \textbf{Typen} & \textbf{Regel} \\
\midrule
= & ...
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Table looking like a block
The goal is to create a table that has the same style than a block of the used theme in order to have a consequent style trough the document. this can be done by the following two methodes shown in ...
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How to use siunitx and tabularx together?
I'm using the tabular features of siunitx (for what it is worth: v1.3 since I'm on TexLive 2009) to align numbers in tables, eg.
\begin{tabular}{ p{1.5cm} S S S }
bla & 1.23 & 4.5 & 67.89 ...
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Whole page table with tabularx
I am trying to make a full page table using tabularx. As far as I can understand, the second parameter specifies the entire size and the "X" columns self-stretch to fill it up. What I run into is a ...
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Is it possible to make an underfull tabulary spread out?
With this MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabulary}
\begin{document}
\hrule
\begin{center}
\begin{tabulary}{\textwidth}{|L|L|L|}
foo&bar&baz
\end{tabulary}
\end{center}
...
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Automatically stretch table to evenly fill horizontal space?
I want to have my tables fill the entire width of the page (i.e., \textwidth). So far, the only thing I've managed to come up with is:
\renewcommand{\tabcolsep}{4.4pt}
By manually trying different ...
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How to change the alignment of a tabularx within an easylist?
I'm probably missing something super obvious, but my searching has turned up nothing. I want to put a table in the middle of an outline that I'm making with the easylist package. The table is coming ...
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How to include tabularx/y in a new environment?
I am looking for a way to define a customizable environment for tables in my latex documents. This means:
caption and label
width of table
customized column format (tabular preamble)
While this ...
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Tables in Latex with diagonal first row
I'm trying to create a table with a diagonal first row, like in how-to-draw-diagonal-table-borders-in-latex-like-in-excel
I've looked through the documentation for PGF-TiKZ, but am still unsure as to ...
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Centering in tabularx and X columns
How can I center the column when using X in tabularx environment like in this example?
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}lXXXXX@{}}
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 \\
\end{tabularx}
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Table layout with tabularx (column widths: 50%|25%|25%)
This code produces a table with three centered column:
\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{| c | c | c |}
\hline
Alpha & Beta & Gamma ...
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Conflict between tabu and tabularx, when using siunitx
I have many tables set with {tabularx} but for some of the it seems easier to use {tabu} which works. But if I use both packages and gave the last X column in {longtabu} an S and optional argument it ...
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How to vertically align multiline column
I am trying to set up a table with the tabularx package (although the used package does not really matter to me).
The table should stretch across the entire line. I am trying to get both columns ...
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Table Configuration
I'm new to LaTeX, and I'm currently struggling with trying to create a table for a lab report. The table has to look like this:
I have tried looking at the \tabular, \tabulary and \tabularx ...
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\hfill in in table cells
There are tables in my document. The baselines between the last row of each table and the following text is usually circa 16,25p (see below). Now I wanted to add right-aligned text to some selected ...
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Filling out page with tabular (width and height) with evently
I'm trying to make sticky labels with LaTeX. I thought this would be pretty simple because of LaTeX's nice support of absolute units, but it turned out to be quite difficult. This is the specification ...
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Hebrew vs. German/English translation side-by-side
I am having the following problem: I have Hebrew texts and want to put translations (and other information) right next to it in a nice way. (Previously I used the old Nisus Writer for Mac which for ...
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\phantom inside tabularx
I tried to improve the alignment in the following table using a \hphantom:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{p{2.8cm} X}
1/00\,--\,2/00 ...
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How to typeset tabularx with 34 columns? (Error message)
I want/need to typeset a very large table with >30 columns, which I created with Excel2LaTeX.
I don't get it to compile, it only works if I really use 20 columns, however when I insert the 21st one, ...
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Table align in description environment
Why table doesn't align as a text in description environment? I want it has same left indent and width as text.
Is that possible?
\documentclass[a4paper,oneside]{book}
\usepackage[paper=a4paper, ...
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Formatting table border and text alignment in LaTeX table
I have the following table in the .tex file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\caption{Distribution of Number of Injured ...
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tabularx inside a \newenvironment
There's something wrong with this code:
\newenvironment{Tbl}
{\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|l|X|} \hline}
{\end{tabularx}}
but this is fine:
\newenvironment{Tbl}
{\begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline}
...
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Vertically aligning text after baseline changed
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{c|X}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
scale=.6,
every node/.style={scale=.6}
]
...
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Custom glossary style: Make glossary as wide as \textwidth
WARNING: This is a follow-up question to Display long form (first-use like) entries of none acronyme type entries.
As mafp suggested in the other post I went ahead and defined my own glossary-styles ...
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Trouble with nested tables
I am using nested table environments in the following snippet:
\begin{document}
\noindent
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{rX lX}
COURSEWORK & Machine Learning, Probabilitistic Learning, ...
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Table with shaded transitition, rounded corners and shadow (like a block of the theme)
this is my first question here.
I want to make my table look like the block to have a consequent style.
Questions:
How to create that shaded transition from the table headline to the body (like the ...
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Table with foot note
I have a table and some of the number inside has some symbol like * and **
which should be explianed as footer ( at the end of the table not the page) I dont know how to do that and I dont want to ...
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How to create a table with a headline centered and columns centered?
I use the following code to create a table with a centered headline.
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{l|X}
\multicolumn{2}{c}{Headline centered} \\
\hline
Column1 & Column2 which should be ...
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biblatex and tabular patching: error message
(/localhost/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/rerunfilecheck.sty))
(/localhost/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/se-ascii-print.def)
(./TikZ-commands.tex)
...
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tabularx syntax
First time using tabularx to create tables, my code is below: (which turns out to be very wrong!)
\begin{table}[htbp]
\caption{\textbf{Description of Regression Variables and Data Sources} \\ This ...
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Table with 100 % width and vertical / horizontal alignment
I want to draw the following table in LaTeX. In the first column the text should be left aligned. The text in all other cells should be centered. The first problem occurs with D in the first row. If I ...
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siunitx: How to get bold, aligned entries and how to align when units differ in length?
I tried my first steps with siunitx, but I have trouble achieving the following in the minimal example below:
1) aligning the entries in the first column with respect to the decimal dot
2) getting a ...
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Wrapping column text using multicolumn and tabularx
I have two tables I am typesetting above each other as follows.
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[left=2cm, right=2cm, bmargin=1.5cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
...
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Why won't putting \input inside a tabularx environment compile?
Putting a tikzpicture normpdf_2d.tex
\input{./Figures/chapter6/normpdf_2d.tex}
on its own is fine. but, putting it nto a \tabularx environment won't compile. Why? What property does this ...
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Divide the page into 2 parts
I have text, formulas and an enumeration. I tried to use multicols, but it divides the text where it wants. I used tabular, but it don't allow to have an enumeration or I don't know how to do it.
In ...
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How to define a table in documentclass?
Consider a simple table in the document:
\begin{tabular}{ l c r }
1 & 2 & 3 \\
4 & 5 & 6 \\
7 & 8 & 9 \\
\end{tabular}
How we can define this table within the ...
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What is the right way to set predetermined column widths with tabularx?
I was just wondering about this, because I went over the tabularx documentation and I couldn't find an answer.
So, there are several questions going on here:
Is it better to use a proportion of the ...
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tabularx option in tcolorbox
I'd like to use the recently introduced (in version 2.10) tabularx key for the tcolorbox package. The key is documented in the tcolorbox documentation, section 3.6, paragraph /tcb/tabularx, page 28.
I ...
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How to 'shorten' \cline so that multiple groups in a table become visible?
I would like to construct a table which looks like a booktabs table (but
without using the package booktabs). Instead of \cmidrule, I used \cline,
which comes pretty close (see below), but the lines ...
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How to set the row height to equal to the column width of X in the tabularx environment?
Within the tabularx environment, X is a particular width which allows the table to fit the width of the specified horizontal space. I want to create a table which has square cells.
How can I set the ...
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Vertical line only in one part of a table
I need some help on putting a vertical line in the second part of the table, I don't know how to do it since the tabularx I declared does need to have that only in the second part. The code I used ...
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Table counter increasing by 2 for every table
I'm having some issues when using tabularx within a table environment. The most annoying of these issues is that the table counter seems to be increasing by 2 for every table. So instead of having ...
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Always a space before embedded figures in table - how do I get rid of it?
I am placing figures in a tabularx and I am having trouble getting them to embed properly. I keep getting an annoying spacer before the figure... Now if only this space could be split evenly before ...
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tabularx: bottom alignment on r or l-columns when X column wraps
In tabularx, when the X-column wraps on more than one line, l/r/c-columns remains top aligned: MWE:
\begin{tabularx}{5cm}{lXr}
1 & qwer asdf zxcv qwer asdf zxcv qwer asdf zxcv & 1 \\
2 ...
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tabularx and formatting entire column
This is obliquely related to this query, except that I would like to have a tabularx environment where the entire first column is in italics (or some other standard formatting). The following ...
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How to make tabularx columns using \whiledo?
My question is similar to that discussed in How to programmatically make tabular rows using `\whiledo` ?. The difference is that I want to produce columns rather than rows with using \whiledo. ...
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How not to repeat info for each tabularx cell in row?
This produces a 2x2 table whose first row is blue with white text and whose second row is white with black text. Although it works fine it does repeat \textcolor{white} in each cell of the row where ...
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How do I center table headings and stretch the table to full column width?
I have the following code for creating a table in the multicols enviroment. I'd like to center the column headings and make it so that the table automatically takes up the entire column from edge to ...
