TeX - LaTeX Asked by Dbercules on August 7, 2021
I’m a bit of a noob to Latex. I’m using tabularx
to create a table of many rows, for which I’m also using ltablex
to extend over multiple pages. The below code represents the issue I’m facing, where the column containing the consistently largest amounts of text should expand and force the rest to fit around it is actually being rendered as the narrowest! Any help is appreciated.
usepackage{ltablex}
begin{tabularx}{textwidth}{|l|X|l|l|l|}
hline
& & multicolumn{3}{c|}{textbf{TEST}}hline
textbf{ID} & textbf{CRITERIA} & textbf{(A)} & textbf{(B)} & textbf{(C)} hline
multicolumn{5}{|c|}{cellcolor[HTML]{FFFFFF}{color[HTML]{000000} textbf{Category}}} hline
#1 & Very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long text
& Not so long text & Bit longer text than was before, but still short & Usually empty hline
end{tabularx}
The closest I’ve been able to get is:
begin{tabularx}{textwidth}{|l|L|X|X|X|}
where L
is from newcolumntype{L}{>{raggedrightarraybackslash}X}
. Source. Could this declaration involving X
be causing this issue?
If you have
documentclass{article}
usepackage[table]{xcolor}
usepackage{tabularx}
begin{document}
noindent
begin{tabularx}{textwidth}{|l|X|l|l|l|}
hline
& & multicolumn{3}{c|}{textbf{TEST}}hline
textbf{ID} & textbf{CRITERIA} & textbf{(A)} & textbf{(B)} & textbf{(C)} hline
multicolumn{5}{|c|}{cellcolor[HTML]{FFFFFF}{color[HTML]{000000} textbf{Category}}} hline
#1 & Very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long text
& Not so long text & Bit longer text than was before, but still short & Usually empty hline
end{tabularx}
end{document}
then you are specifying that 4 of the columns are set in left aligned single column cells at the natural width of the largest entry in that column. After those widths are determined TeX will then try to make the total width of the table the specified textwidth
by adjusting the width of the X
columns, and allowing lien breaking within those cells.
You gave no indication of the text width (or how cellcolor
was defined) but assuming a standard article and xcolor
then the above example produces
You could replace l by L
as you suggest in the question or for a hand written document table (as opposed to an automated database dump) it is often better to choose the column widths manualy using p{4cm}
or whatever width you want and then just leave one column X to fill out the remaining space if you want the table full width.
documentclass{article}
usepackage[table]{xcolor}
usepackage{tabularx}
begin{document}
begin{center}
setlengthextrarowheight{2pt}
begin{tabularx}{textwidth}{|l|X|>{raggedright}p{2cm}|>{raggedright}p{3cm}|l|}
hline
& & multicolumn{3}{|c|}{textbf{TEST}}hline
textbf{ID} & textbf{CRITERIA} & textbf{(A)} & textbf{(B)} & textbf{(C)} hline
multicolumn{5}{|c|}{cellcolor[HTML]{FFFFFF}{color[HTML]{000000} textbf{Category}}} hline
#1 & Very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long text
& Not so long text & Bit longer text than was before, but still short & Usually empty hline
end{tabularx}
end{center}
end{document}
Correct answer by David Carlisle on August 7, 2021
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