What is the best way to use tabularx
X
column type in longtable
? I read here that ltablex is "ancient" and the same post also mentions tabu
but its page mentions that the package might not be properly maintained. So I wonder, which is a preferred way? (also i would like to avoid manually working with multi-columns)
1 Answer
My new LaTeX3 package tabularray
is an alternative to the outdated tabu
package. You can use X
columns in longtblr
environment.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[a6paper,margin=10mm]{geometry}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{colorlinks}
\begin{document}
Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text.
\NewTblrTheme{fancy}{
\SetTblrStyle{firsthead}{font=\bfseries}
\SetTblrStyle{firstfoot}{fg=blue}
\SetTblrStyle{caption-tag}{red}
}
\begin{longtblr}[
theme = fancy,
caption = {Long Tabular},
entry = {Short Caption},
label = {tblr:test},
note{a} = {It is the first footnote.},
note{$\dag$} = {It is the second long long long long long long footnote.},
]{
colspec = {XXX}, hlines,
rowhead = 2, rowfoot = 1,
row{odd} = {gray9}, row{even} = {teal9},
row{1-2} = {purple7}, row{Z} = {blue7},
}
Head & Head & Head \\
Head & Head & Head \\
Alpha & Beta & Gamma \\
Epsilon & Zeta & Eta \\
Iota & Kappa & Lambda \\
Nu & Xi & Omicron \\
Rho & Sigma & Tau \\
Phi & Chi & Psi \\
Alpha & Beta & Gamma \\
Epsilon & Zeta\TblrNote{a} & Eta \\
Iota & Kappa\TblrNote{$\dag$} & Lambda \\
Nu & Xi & Omicron \\
Rho & Sigma & Tau \\
Phi & Chi & Psi \\
Alpha & Beta & Gamma \\
Epsilon & Zeta & Eta \\
Iota & Kappa & Lambda \\
Nu & Xi & Omicron \\
Rho & Sigma & Tau \\
Phi & Chi & Psi \\
Foot & Foot & Foot \\
\end{longtblr}
Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text.
\end{document}
xltabular
packagep{xcm}
since the table is being used in different documents with different margins and wrong size will make the cells unnecessarily short (or too long).{llp{.4\textwidth}
avoids the overhead oftabularx
and still adapts to the document page size