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In article <maassen.713686177@kreon> maassen@kreon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andreas Maassen) writes:

Andreas> Nntp-Posting-Host: kreon

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

Andreas> Andreas
Andreas> (maassen@parsytec.de)

Get tabularx.sty from SHSU (also aston and Stuttgart I think). 

From David Jones' macro-index:  

> Name: tabularx.sty
> Description: LaTeX style option defining the tabularx environment.  This
>     is like tabular*, except that the widths of certain `p' columns are
>     modified to achieve the desired total width, rather than the width
>     of the inter-column space.
> Keywords: LaTeX, tabular
> Author: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
> Supported: yes
> Latest Version: 30 Jan 1992
> Archives: shsu*
> Note: Requires my newarray.sty and Mittelbach's array.sty.
>     Documentation requires Mittelbach's doc.sty.


David


If you would like to retrieve the file, include the command:
 SENDME STY.TABULARX
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). 
If you would like an overview of FILESERV, include the command HELP in your
message.  For anonymous ftp access, use Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) and
look in the directory [FILESERV.STY].
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