[Tugindia] Table width

[Ashis Kumar Mal]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Herbert Voss wrote:

> Arun Kejariwal schrieb:
> >     I am using a two column mode. Inspite of using \tiny, my table is 
> > overflowing the column boundary. How do I manipulate the table width. My 
> > priority is to fit the table with in the column irrespective of how much 
> > it shrinks the font size. 

> use resizebox
> 
> \documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twocolumn]{article}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \begin{document}
> \begin{table}[!h]
> \resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{%
> \begin{tabular}{c|c|c|c|c|cccc}
> blah & blah &blah &blah &blah &blah &blah &blah &blah \\
> blah & blah &blah &blah &blah &blah &blah &blah &blah \\
> blah & blah &blah &blah &blah &blah &blah &blah &blah \\
> blah & blah &blah &blah &blah &blah &blah &blah &blah \\
> \end{tabular}%
> }
> \caption{Hardware Library}\label{table:exlib}
> \end{table}
> \end{document}

I tried above code with additional columns. But table
is going beyond linewidth.

Please advise me if I am doing wrong.

Regards,

Ashis
Kharagpur