Can I use the tabulary package to create a 2-column table, with column1 using 30% of the available width and column2 using 70%? For example:
\begin{tabulary}{|p{30%}|p{70%}|}
...
\end{tabulary}
1 Answer
If you know the complete width (which is missing in your code fragment), you can simply calculate the widths:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabulary}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabulary}{1.0\textwidth}{|p{.3\textwidth}|p{.7\textwidth}|}
a & b\\
\end{tabulary}
\end{document}
As this does not use any of the special features of tabulary, it can be simplified to
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|p{.3\textwidth}|p{.7\textwidth}|}
a & b\\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
(or even better: make the columns a bit smaller, as currently there is no room for the space around the columns, but the numbers where easier to demonstrate.)
answered Jul 23, 2018 at 14:57
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You are not using tabulary at all, just use tabular (also the line is overfull by parindent+3\arrayrulewidth+4\tabcolsep=40.2pt) Jul 23, 2018 at 15:00
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samcarter: Can you explain your solution? Are you defining the total table width as 1.0, then dividing the column widths up to make 1.0?– mikeyJul 23, 2018 at 15:02
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@DavidCarlisle I don't understand either why the OP uses
tabularyfor two p columns. Jul 23, 2018 at 15:11 -
@mikey The point is that you know the total with of the table from the first argument of
tabularyin the above example1\textwidthfrom the requirements that a) the lenghts have to add up to < the total width and b) your desired ratio is 3:7 you can calculate them. For the easier case of a normal table, you can do the same. Jul 23, 2018 at 15:13 -
A legacy document I am working on uses tabulary. If I can get this to work using tabulary, that is the best solution.– mikeyJul 23, 2018 at 15:14
tabularno need fortabulary