Shrinking a table in LaTeX

[Cerf]

Hey,

I need to shrink a table in LaTeX. It is just slightly too wide and is spilling over into the right margin of my document. Is there a way to tell LaTeX to force it to stay withing the page margins and scale the height accordingly?

I have tried using \fontsize{3}{3}, but it is only affecting a small subset of the cells in the table.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[paj12]

There are many ways to do tables in LaTeX; which particular method are you using? You can use the tabular* (note the asterisk) environment and define the width manually. Here's more info:
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/...ml/ltx-68.html

[Cerf]

There are many ways to do tables in LaTeX; which particular method are you using? You can use the tabular* (note the asterisk) environment and define the width manually. Here's more info:
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/...ml/ltx-68.html

using tabular* and specifying a width relative to the text width is properly scaling the \hline elements, but the text is still overflowing. Any more ideas?

[paj12]

using tabular* and specifying a width relative to the text width is properly scaling the \hline elements, but the text is still overflowing. Any more ideas?

I dunno, manually inserting line breaks in the text of the offending cell? I think you can do this without starting a new row if the text is enclosed in brackets like:

{foo \\ bar}

But I might be way off base. You might have better luck on a forum specific to TeX like this one:
http://www.cqf.info/forum/viewforum.php?f=4

Hope you find a solution.

[paj12]

Scratch that last post. It doesn't work. However, you can use the \multirow command to break the text across multiple lines. Here is a more comprehensive tutorial about the tabular environment. The \multirow command is covered in the last section called, "Columns spanning multiple rows."

http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/lat...tutorial4.html

Hope this helps.

[ehawk]

If you were using lyx, this might help:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables