[texhax] Quick question on \hline

[Steve Schwartz]

Jim,

\hlines are designed to fit your table's natural width, so you either
need to make your tabular environment fill the whole width of the page
(e.g., by using a p{...} column specifier to specify the width of each
column), or draw your line outside your tabular environment using \rule,
e.g.

\noindent\rule{\textwidth}{0.5em}\par
\begin{tabular}...
...
\end{tabular}
\par\noindent\rule{\textwidth}{0.5em}\par

(these lines are probably too think, but you can make them any size you
like by adjusting the length (1st argument) and thickness (2nd
argument).

Steve


On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 09:15 +0100, James Smith wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> as advised, I'm using the \tabular environment for my psuedo code
> listings which works fine. I want to enclose each listing with a
> horizontal line that goes right across the page. I've tried this...
> 
> \begin{tabular}
> {l>{$}l<{$}>{$}l<{$}}
> \\
> \hline\\
> .
> .
> .
> \\
> \hline\\
> \end{tabular}
> 
> ...but the hline only goes as far across as the code itself, not all the
> way across.
> 
> Is there a way around this?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Jim
> 
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