Re: Intelligent tables

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From: Dag Asheim
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:04

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>What I'm want is to be able to put in more text than will fit on one
>line in a particular column of the table and have the text wrap to the
>next line.

Use the p-format specifier in tabular/array environments like this:

\begin{tabular}{p{1.5cm}p{1.8cm}}
short         & still short       \\
much too long & ditto             \\
short         & another long line \\
\end{tabular}

Dag Asheim					dash@ifi.uio.no
Department of Informatics
University of Oslo, Norway

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