[OS X TeX] Automatic linebreak in table - just do not get it work
Herbert Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com
Sun Sep 28 21:09:02 CEST 2008
On Sep 28, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I tried now several attempts to get an automatic linebreak to work in
> a table. I tried tabularx and tabular(*) but I just do not get the
> content of the table on a page. I hate to admit it but those last 3 or
> 4 hours trying to make it work and googling around make me miss some
> word processors of several office-products.
> The table is:
>
> \begin{table}
> \footnotesize
> \begin{tabularx}{250pt}{|>{\hsize=1\hsize}X|>{\hsize=.5\hsize}X|c|c|}
> Gewerbe & Kapitaleinlage & Angestellte (Mittelunternehmen) &
> Angestellte (Kleinunternehmen) \\
> produzierende Industrie, Baugewerbe, Untengy\={o} (fahrendes Gewerbe)
> & <300 Mio \yen (1,8 Mio \euro) & <300 Angestellte & <20\\
> Großhandel & <100 Mio \yen (ca. 600.000 \euro) & <100 & <5\\
> Serviceindustrie & <50 Mio \yen (ca. 300.000 \euro) & <100 & <5\\
> Kleinhandel & unter 50 Mio \yen (ca. 300.000 \euro) & <50 & <5\\
> \end{tabularx}
> \caption{Defintion von KMU nach Industrie in Zahlen}
> \end{table}
>
> The table above is just the latest attempt to get it to work. Can
> anyone help me there?
>
> Niels
Howdy,
If you want text to wrap you should use the paragraph (p) column
specifier. It takes a single argument which is the width of the column.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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