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Re: dynamic parbox in tabular env - is it possible?

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From: Elmar Schalueck
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:21
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maassen@kreon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andreas Maassen) writes:

>I would like to have a table (created with tabular environment) with
>one (or maybe more than one parbox) columns (p{...}). The width of this
>(or these) parbox columns, however, should not be fixed but rather be
>dynamically adjusted to the space not used by the other columns.
>For example, with textwidth 15cm, \begin{tabular}{|l|p{***}|}, and
>the longest entry for the left column being 5cm long, *** should be
>automatically set to 10cm (minus the space needed for separating the
>columns, of course). Is anything like that possible?


Yes, try the tabularx package, available at any better archive!

>Andreas
>(maassen@parsytec.de)

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