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[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.05.2009 um 07:11 schrieb Alain Schremmer:

> \begin{center}
> 	\begin{tabular}{@{} |l|l| @{}}
> 		\hline
> 	%Row0title
> 			\textbf{Task} 13
> 		&	\textbf{Solution}
> 		\\
> 		\hline
> 	%Row0text
> 			\begin{minipage}[t]{50mm}
> Given the function $f$ whose global input-output rule is
> \begin{displaymath}
>  x \xrightarrow{\hspace{2mm} f\hspace{2mm}} f(x) =
> \frac{\polynomial[reciprocal]{1,,,-8}}{\polynomial[reciprocal]{1,,-1}}
> \end{displaymath}
> find the sign of the \emph{concavity} of $f$ near $\infty$
> 		\vspace{2mm}
> 			\end{minipage}
> 		&	\begin{minipage}[t]{110mm}


You don't gain much when you use \begin{center} for such a wide table  
instead of the geometry package (the page will look better, too). And  
you also make the code too complicated by using minipages in tables.  
It's possible, that's clear and obvious, but

	\begin{tabular}{|p{50mm}|p{110mm}|}	% what do the @{} on both sides  
give with |?

without minipages give automatically the same result. The p{width}  
setting puts the text of the cell into a

	\parbox[t]{width}{cell's context}

(And a minipage isn't that different.) The separation of the  
exercises in *one* table (\begin{tabular}{|p{145mm}|p{15mm}|})  
without minipages can be achieved by

	\\\hline
	\multicolumn{2}{l}{}\\[-2mm]\hline

The optional [-2mm] reduces the space between the lines. (The  
multicolumn statement also takes settings like

	\multicolumn{2}{|l|}{}\\[-2mm]\hline
	\multicolumn{2}{|l}{}\\[-2mm]\hline
	\multicolumn{2}{l|}{}\\[-2mm]\hline

which might be able to suggest the use of just one large table  
spanning many pages with columns of discrete widths which are from  
case to case glued together by multicolumn statements.) And I think  
you also could put the multitude of little tables and text into one  
table…


BTW, where does the \polynomial come from?

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Greetings

   Pete

Some day we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any  
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