I'm aware that my table is too wide as it keeps going off the page on the right.
Is there a way to fix this?
I'm using lyx as I am a learner.
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Many users end up here when they are actually searching for how to wrap text in a table row. Answer is here: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/332712/…– NavCommented Apr 3, 2020 at 5:31
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\noindent\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
... your tabular ...
}
In LyX insert the two lines in ERT (Evil Red Text) mode (Ctrl-L) just before and after your tabular. In the documents preamble add \usepackage{graphicx} if not already present.
This is how you add a new package: Use custom latex package in LyX
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it works! but I'm getting a compilation error on lyx. Any idea on how to solve it? (again, it is able to compile the pdf)– RhoCommented Jul 6, 2014 at 17:45
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what error message? Did yoo loaded
graphicx?– user2478Commented Jul 6, 2014 at 19:28 -
If you are getting an error. Try switching out of longtable mode by right clicking the table-->More-->Settings-->and unchecking longtable Commented Mar 10, 2016 at 4:08
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This does the wrong thing. It scales the entire table instead of doing overflow in the columns. Commented Oct 5, 2016 at 10:31
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it depends on what you want!– user2478Commented Oct 5, 2016 at 10:49
You can fix the width of the table to fit the width of your general text.
To fix the width of the table in LyX 2.0, right-click in a cell in the column, move to More... and choose Settings.... In the Table Settings tab, you can set the value near the bottom, under Table-wide settings.
This, however, will set the width of your table, but not the content of the table. If, e.g., you have a cell with a lot of text that extends beyond the margin, then also pick a width for that (those) column(s) under Column settings in the same tab. This will also allow line breaks in the text.
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2That should be the selected answer, as the current one doesn't use LyX capabilities, but hard coded directives
\noindent\resizebox– minsCommented Apr 29, 2023 at 11:12