Autowrapping text and setting cell sizes in LaTeX tables

[neurocomp2003]

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

 

[D H]

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.

 

[neurocomp2003]

thank you.