latex table and new lines

Luca Ferrari

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Aug 12, 2002, 8:58:37 AM8/12/02

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Hi,
I'm new to LaTex and my problem is related to the tables: when I create a
table with two coloumns and in one of these write a long text Latex never
goes to ne line so that the table is cutted. In other words Latex writes
all the text on a single line. I've tried to insert the '\\' into the
coloumn text but it's not what I want. Ho can I force Latex to automatic
new lines?
Thanks.

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Wald

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Aug 12, 2002, 9:16:28 AM8/12/02

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"Luca Ferrari" <fluc...@libero.it> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I'm new to LaTex and my problem is related to the tables: when I create a
> table with two coloumns and in one of these write a long text Latex never
> goes to ne line so that the table is cutted.

You can specify the column to be of p-type (fixed width, justified). Like
this:

begin{tabular}{p{5cm} p{5cm}}
very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very
very long text & just a bit more
\end{tabular}

> In other words Latex writes
> all the text on a single line. I've tried to insert the '\\' into the
> coloumn text but it's not what I want.

\\ in a tabular environment has a different meaning, it ends a table row.
\newline does what you intend to do.

Regards,
Wald

Lars Madsen

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Aug 12, 2002, 10:12:58 AM8/12/02

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Luca Ferrari wrote:

\begin{tabular}{cp{5cm}}
....
\end{tabular}

now the 2. column will have a width of 5cm and it will break the line
acordingly

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Århus Universitet

Martin Schulze

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Aug 12, 2002, 12:28:02 PM8/12/02

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> when I create a
> table with two coloumns and in one of these write a long text Latex never
> goes to ne line so that the table is cutted. In other words Latex writes
> all the text on a single line.

c, l, and r are no-line-break-columns. Use p{...} if you want lines to
be broken. Use package ltablex if you want LaTeX to calculate column
widths.

Martin

Martin Schulze

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Aug 12, 2002, 1:12:33 PM8/12/02

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> when I create a table with two coloumns and in one of these write a
> long text Latex never goes to ne line so that the table is cutted. In
> other words Latex writes all the text on a single line.

c, l, and r are no-line-break-columns. Use p{...} if you want lines to

Martin Schulze

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Aug 12, 2002, 2:35:01 PM8/12/02

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> when I create a table with two coloumns and in one of these write a
> long text Latex never goes to ne line so that the table is cutted. In
> other words Latex writes all the text on a single line.

c, l, and r are no-line-break-columns. Use p{...} if you want lines to

Peter Wilson

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Aug 12, 2002, 3:32:55 PM8/12/02

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"Luca Ferrari" <fluc...@libero.it> wrote in message
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You have to specify a fixed width column (using the p{width} specifier)
otherwise LaTeX doesn't know where to break long lines.

Peter W.