Word-wrap in LaTeX \table? « Christoffer Kjølbæk

30Sep/081

Word-wrap in LaTeX \table?

I am trying to make word-wrap in a table, which isn't going that well :)

I found a solution at this blog, which uses

\begin{tabular}{|c|p{5cm}|p{5cm}|}

to set the width of the two last columns to 5 cm. It is futhermore possible to use

p{\linewidth-2cm}

which for me is better, but I still would prefere not to have any fixed width in my docmument.

Any ideas?

Christoffer Kjølbæk
30. September, 2008 - 11:14

Just got a better solution from the LaTeX supportgroup at DTU, thanks!

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\noindent
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{cX}
Centreret & Noget meget lang tekst, som brydes over flere linjer. Noget meget lang tekst, som brydes over flere linjer. Noget meget lang tekst, som brydes over flere linjer.\\
s\o jle & Foo
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}