For double column format paper, should we use .5textwidth or a slightly smaller textwidth for a table?

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This is a double-column format paper, and I am using adjustbox to resize my table.
The question is that if I resize my table to .5textwidth, the table is a little bit beyond the text, so should I use .5textwidth or a slightly smaller text width to make the table exact align with the text?

Don Hosek · Accepted Answer

As a general rule you want to use linewidth for the width of the current text line.
textwidth is the width of the whole text block including gutters for multi-column layout.
columnwidth is the width of the current column (which will be textwidth in single column mode).
linewidth adjusts if the margins are changed (e.g., in a list environment or quotation environment).
Note that inside a minipage environment, textwidth and columnwidth will be reset to the width of the minipage.

For double column format paper, should we use .5textwidth or a slightly smaller textwidth for a table?

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