I am having a strange problem with a document I write. When I insert a table latex produces huge white gaps between the text lines and sends the table to the next page. I thought two possible solutions, either make some minor modifications (to the text or the table) so the table can be fitted to the desired page or force the table to go to the next page by the means of the \newpage
command.
My question is more theoretical than practical although if someone has a better solution that would be very nice! So the actual question is :
"Does latex automatic changes the vertical space between line breaks as it does for the horizontal space between the text?"
If it does, it seems strange to me that this is the first time I noticed but maybe this is because I rarely use tables. A minimal example would be this:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{tabularx}%expands the tabular environment }
\date{}
\author{Me!}
\title{Some Book}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter%
\maketitle
\mainmatter%
\chapter*{The First Chapter}
\section*{The first section}
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\section*{Some text}
\large{\begin{center}\begin{tabularx}{\columnwidth}{|c|c|X|}
\hline
\textbf{Some text} &\textbf{Some text} &\textbf{Some text}\\
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\end{tabularx}
\end{center}}
\backmatter%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\end{document}
Thanks in advance for any responses!
\begin{center} ... \end{center}
An another tip: You can use\usepackage{blindtext}
and the\blindtext
command to add some dummy text automatically, instead ofSome text
;-)\large
doesn't take an argument. Everything after yourtabularx
will also be large. Try{\large\centering\begin{tabularx}{...}...\end{tabularx}\par}
\textbf
) that take an argument and "declarations" (such as\bfseries
) that act as a switch. The standard font size changing commands are all declarations with no text block equivalents.