[texhax] Re: Unexpected Warnings with Ctable Package

[Chris Yocum]

Dear Mr. Heller,
     Thank you for your response.  I decided to implement the tables
in a different way with \footnotemark and \footnotetext and allow the
footnotes to escape to the bottom of the page.  It does not look as
good but the information is there and there are not many footnotes so
unless someone complains, it will do.

Thanks,
Chris

On 11/2/05, Martin Heller <mr_heller at yahoo.dk> wrote:
> Chris Yocum wrote:
>
> > Package array Warning: Column X is already defined on input line 226.
> > Package array Warning: Column X is already defined on input line 226.
> > Package tabularx Warning: X Columns too narrow (table too wide)
> > (tabularx) on input line 226.
> >
> > I looked in tabularx's documentation and I saw that: "the widths of
> > the `normal' columns of the table already total more than the
> > requested total width."  I did not set a width initally and I thought
> > that ctable would only use tabularx if I specified a width.  Later, I
> > set a width to 100 mm and that got rid of the last warning and that
> > looks OK but I do not want to be forced to set a width for each and
> > every table (there are lots of grammar tables).  Is there a way to
> > avoid having to explicitly set a width?
>
> I don't have any experience with ctable, but the warning seems to
> go away if a maxwidth is specified. Otherwise take a look at the
> threeparttable package which imo implements table notes in a
> nicer way.
>
> \documentclass[a4paper]{book}
> \usepackage[T1]{tipa}
> \usepackage{float}
> \usepackage{ctable}
>
> \begin{document}
> \ctable[%
>      maxwidth=\textwidth,
>      caption={Classical Gaelic o-stem(fear)},
>      pos=H]{lcc}{%
>          \tnote[a]{Prose fear w/o nasalization}
>          \tnote[b]{Prose does not bother with the acc. pl.}
> }{%
>          & Sing & Pl \NN
>      nom & fear & fir\textsuperscript{L} \NN
>      voc & a fhir\textsuperscript{L} & a fheara \NN
>      acc & (fear\textsuperscript{N})\tmark[a] & feara\tmark[b] \NN
>      gen & fir\textsuperscript{L} & fear\textsuperscript{N} \NN
>      dat & (fear) & fe\-araibh/(fir\textsuperscript{L}) \LL
> }
> \end{document}
>
> > Also, is there something
> > that I can do about the first two warnings?
>
> No.
>
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