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In the appendix of my report, I would like to add a table. The problem is that I have a cell "description" that contains too much text to be displayed on one line, now the row "overflows" on the right. Also there is too many row to be contained on one single page. Is it possible to display my data such as
Thank you
You may take a look at the tabu package. This extends the well known tabularx and longtable so that you can easily handle them both without writing to a aux file.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tabu}
\usepackage{longtable}
% showcase only strip that
% see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/50296/problem-with-using-loop-inside-the-tabular-environment
\newcounter{my}
\setcounter{my}{0}
\def\myinsert{}%
\loop\ifnum\themy<100
\addtocounter{my}{1}
\expandafter\def\expandafter\myinsert\expandafter{%
\myinsert
Quite a big cell content & Not so big content but bigger cell \\
}%
\repeat
% end showcase
\begin{document}
\begin{longtabu} to .5\textwidth{X[1]X[2]} % half the width of the text
\myinsert
\end{longtabu}
\end{document}
Any additional information can also be found in the tabu documentation (texdoc tabu)
\begin{longtable}{|c|l|p{8cm}|}
– Martin Trigaux
Jul 10 '12 at 9:00
