Tips for Autowrapping Text and Setting Cell Sizes in LaTeX Tables

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This discussion focuses on techniques for autowrapping text in LaTeX tables and setting cell sizes. To autowrap text without using multicol or multirow, the recommended approach is to use the p{\widthspec} column specifier in the \begin{tabular} command. For setting relative or absolute sizes for table cells, users are directed to section 7 ("Rows and Columns") of the LaTeX tutorial available at the University of Cambridge's website.

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Hi,
wasn't sure where to put this.

[1] how do you autowrap text(paragraphs) in a LaTeX tables without using
multicol/multirow?
[2] how do you set relative/absolute sizes for table cells in LaTeX like you would in MS Word?

Thanks
 
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Short answer: Use p{\widthspec} as a column specifier (the arguments to \begin{tabular}).

Long answer: See section 7 ("Rows and Columns") of the LaTeX tutorial, http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/ltxprimer-1.0.pdf . It describes LaTeX tables in detail with examples.
 
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