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Tables with lots of text in LaTeX often lead to tables that do not fit on a page. This post shows how to produce tables with automatic line breaks. Here is a simple example of a badly formatted table:
The tabularx package has the possibility to break lines automatically by using the column specifier X:
\ begin < table >[ ! htbp ] Number & Description \ \1 & This is a mighty long text that could go over multiple lines but in a normal table is shown on one line and therefore the table does not fit on the page \ \
2 & This is a mighty long text that could go over multiple lines but in a normal table is shown on one line and therefore the table does not fit on the page \ \
3 & This is a mighty long text that could go over multiple lines but in a normal table is shown on one line and therefore the table does not fit on the page \ \
\ bottomruleThis results in the following table:
Another option is defining a new command to let you set the width of the columns:
