[Tugindia] some more table formatting issues

Kumaresh P pskumaresh06 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 18 08:45:26 CET 2006


Dear Alex,

Try this command,
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{1.4pt}
in the table environment.

\begin{tabular}
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{1.4pt}

\end{tabular}

Best
Kumaresh PS

On 3/18/06, Alexander Nervedi <alexnerdy at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello list members.
>
> I have some messy tables to handle - too much text, too many rows, and too
> many columns. I was wondering if there is a way to "shrink" the table?
>
> I know that one can use \scalebox{magnification}{text} to do what I want;
> however, this does not seem to work with a table. The following script
> does
> not compile.
>
> \scalebox{magnification}{
> \begin{tabular}
>
> \end{tabular}
> }
>
>
> I tried an alternative which was to down size the table using \scriptsize,
> but that too failed, it only changed the size for a cell, instead of the
> entire table. I had used
>
>
> \begin{tabular}
> \scriptsize
> % table contents below
>
> \end{tabular}
>
> and the first row, first column had its size changed, the rest remained
> the
> same. I guess I could use longtable to make the table presentable across
> pages, but it is an appendix, table so I'd really like to know if the only
> alternative for shrinking available to me is to specify \scriptsize in
> each
> cell ?
>
> any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Alnerdy
>
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