[OS X TeX] Dental problem

[Maarten Sneep]

On 18 feb 2005, at 16:54, Alain Schremmer wrote:
> Piet van Oostrum wrote:
>
>>> PD> I think I've never seen an un-indented tabular environment. I 
>>> usually set
>>> PD> \hsize*{-5mm} or such -- except someone knows the exact name ...
>>
>> It is half of the intercolumn space (\tabcolsep), which can be 
>> suppressed
>> by putting @{} in front of the column spec.
>
> I have tried to insert @{} in various places but with no luck.
>
> Below is an example (without the body text even the first two tables 
> do not line up) to show why I would like it to work. Given that this 
> is not for print but for uploading under GPL it does not really matter 
> but I think I am beginning to catch the "typesetting" bug.

Exactly like Piet wrote: in the column spec.

\begin{tabular}{c@{}c}

will give you a table with no space between the two centered columns.

Maarten

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