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>>>>> On 6 Aug 92 04:29:14 GMT, sjm@merlin.anu.edu.au (Stephen Meatheringham) said:

...
Stephen> \documentstyle{article}
Stephen>  
Stephen> \begin{document}
Stephen>  
Stephen> \begin{tabular}{ccc}
Stephen> \multicolumn{3}{c}{this-is-a-very-long-word}\\
Stephen> I   & V   & H  \\
Stephen> 2.2 & 1.9 & 5.2 \\
Stephen> 1.7 & 2.0 & 2.8 \\
Stephen> \end{tabular}
Stephen>  
Stephen> \end{document}

Stephen> Now, what I see is that the 3 output columns (I, V and H) are not spread 
Stephen> evenly under the heading, but there is a lot more space between the V and H
Stephen> columns than between the I and V columns. 

......

There was an identical post to this a couple of days ago. (except it
was in plain dialect)

I posted a solution using \hidewidth, 
asnd@msr.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau) posted a really nice use of
shrinkable tabskip glue to solve the same problem. So here are these
two solutions again (in LaTeX form).

 
\begin{document}
  
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
\multicolumn{3}{c}{\hidewidth this-is-a-very-long-word\hidewidth\null}\\
I   & V   & H  \\
2.2 & 1.9 & 5.2 \\
1.7 & 2.0 & 2.8 \\
\end{tabular}
 

\begin{tabular*}{2in}{@{\hspace{\tabcolsep}\extracolsep{2in minus 2in}}ccc}
\multicolumn{3}{c}{this-is-a-very-long-word}\\
I   & V   & H  \\
2.2 & 1.9 & 5.2 \\
1.7 & 2.0 & 2.8 \\
\end{tabular*}
 
\end{document}
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