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Is there a global variable that reflects the current preferred table column's width?


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I wish to insert a (varwidth) box into a table cell, and I want the size of the box to be limited in width to whatever autosize that column would otherwise have, and for any text that I insert into the box to just wrap at that width.



I was initially hoping to be able to do something like



begin{tabular}{ccc}

Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3tabularnewline

stuff & 

begin{varwidth}{columnwidth}

This text should be wrapped to the width of the column

but instead it makes the entire column extremely wide

end{varwidth}

 & stufftabularnewline

some other stuff & some other stuff & some other stufftabularnewline

end{tabular}


Putting my varwidth minipage in the cell where I want to insert the text, but columnwidth seems to only reflect the width of a column with respect to how the pages are finally laid out, not the preferred width of an individual table column. Worse this example further causes the table to overflow past the right margin.



I apologize in advance if my requirements are unclear, but if any one has any specific questions, I will try to address them quickly and clarify the text of this question as appropriate.






tables width cell column-width







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  • So you know the width of the widest element in one specific column, and you want another element to not exceed this width? Is this an l, c or r column?

    – Werner
    16 hours ago











  • You could use sbox1{hbox{<Largest Column Item >} and then at the place you want to add the item parbox{wdsbox1}{hfil<Your item here>hfill}. Use hfil and hfill for centered item etc.

    – koleygr
    15 hours ago






  • 1





    questions are always clearer if you provide a complete small document showing the problem, normally multiline things are in a p column in which case linewidth is the answer. For l,c,r columns you could do do a two pass solution, or perhaps using tabularx X would meet the need, hard to say...

    – David Carlisle
    14 hours ago











  • @DavidCarlisle I've tried to give a more complete example of what I was hoping to do, but as this doesn't actually do what I want, I'm not sure how helpful it is at describing my intent.

    – Mark
    8 hours ago
















2















I wish to insert a (varwidth) box into a table cell, and I want the size of the box to be limited in width to whatever autosize that column would otherwise have, and for any text that I insert into the box to just wrap at that width.



I was initially hoping to be able to do something like



begin{tabular}{ccc}

Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3tabularnewline

stuff & 

begin{varwidth}{columnwidth}

This text should be wrapped to the width of the column

but instead it makes the entire column extremely wide

end{varwidth}

 & stufftabularnewline

some other stuff & some other stuff & some other stufftabularnewline

end{tabular}


Putting my varwidth minipage in the cell where I want to insert the text, but columnwidth seems to only reflect the width of a column with respect to how the pages are finally laid out, not the preferred width of an individual table column. Worse this example further causes the table to overflow past the right margin.



I apologize in advance if my requirements are unclear, but if any one has any specific questions, I will try to address them quickly and clarify the text of this question as appropriate.






tables width cell column-width







share|improve this question

























  • So you know the width of the widest element in one specific column, and you want another element to not exceed this width? Is this an l, c or r column?

    – Werner
    16 hours ago











  • You could use sbox1{hbox{<Largest Column Item >} and then at the place you want to add the item parbox{wdsbox1}{hfil<Your item here>hfill}. Use hfil and hfill for centered item etc.

    – koleygr
    15 hours ago






  • 1





    questions are always clearer if you provide a complete small document showing the problem, normally multiline things are in a p column in which case linewidth is the answer. For l,c,r columns you could do do a two pass solution, or perhaps using tabularx X would meet the need, hard to say...

    – David Carlisle
    14 hours ago











  • @DavidCarlisle I've tried to give a more complete example of what I was hoping to do, but as this doesn't actually do what I want, I'm not sure how helpful it is at describing my intent.

    – Mark
    8 hours ago














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2


1






I wish to insert a (varwidth) box into a table cell, and I want the size of the box to be limited in width to whatever autosize that column would otherwise have, and for any text that I insert into the box to just wrap at that width.



I was initially hoping to be able to do something like



begin{tabular}{ccc}

Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3tabularnewline

stuff & 

begin{varwidth}{columnwidth}

This text should be wrapped to the width of the column

but instead it makes the entire column extremely wide

end{varwidth}

 & stufftabularnewline

some other stuff & some other stuff & some other stufftabularnewline

end{tabular}


Putting my varwidth minipage in the cell where I want to insert the text, but columnwidth seems to only reflect the width of a column with respect to how the pages are finally laid out, not the preferred width of an individual table column. Worse this example further causes the table to overflow past the right margin.



I apologize in advance if my requirements are unclear, but if any one has any specific questions, I will try to address them quickly and clarify the text of this question as appropriate.






tables width cell column-width







share|improve this question
















I wish to insert a (varwidth) box into a table cell, and I want the size of the box to be limited in width to whatever autosize that column would otherwise have, and for any text that I insert into the box to just wrap at that width.



I was initially hoping to be able to do something like



begin{tabular}{ccc}

Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3tabularnewline

stuff & 

begin{varwidth}{columnwidth}

This text should be wrapped to the width of the column

but instead it makes the entire column extremely wide

end{varwidth}

 & stufftabularnewline

some other stuff & some other stuff & some other stufftabularnewline

end{tabular}


Putting my varwidth minipage in the cell where I want to insert the text, but columnwidth seems to only reflect the width of a column with respect to how the pages are finally laid out, not the preferred width of an individual table column. Worse this example further causes the table to overflow past the right margin.



I apologize in advance if my requirements are unclear, but if any one has any specific questions, I will try to address them quickly and clarify the text of this question as appropriate.






tables width cell column-width




tables width cell column-width






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  • So you know the width of the widest element in one specific column, and you want another element to not exceed this width? Is this an l, c or r column?

    – Werner
    16 hours ago











  • You could use sbox1{hbox{<Largest Column Item >} and then at the place you want to add the item parbox{wdsbox1}{hfil<Your item here>hfill}. Use hfil and hfill for centered item etc.

    – koleygr
    15 hours ago






  • 1





    questions are always clearer if you provide a complete small document showing the problem, normally multiline things are in a p column in which case linewidth is the answer. For l,c,r columns you could do do a two pass solution, or perhaps using tabularx X would meet the need, hard to say...

    – David Carlisle
    14 hours ago











  • @DavidCarlisle I've tried to give a more complete example of what I was hoping to do, but as this doesn't actually do what I want, I'm not sure how helpful it is at describing my intent.

    – Mark
    8 hours ago



















  • So you know the width of the widest element in one specific column, and you want another element to not exceed this width? Is this an l, c or r column?

    – Werner
    16 hours ago











  • You could use sbox1{hbox{<Largest Column Item >} and then at the place you want to add the item parbox{wdsbox1}{hfil<Your item here>hfill}. Use hfil and hfill for centered item etc.

    – koleygr
    15 hours ago






  • 1





    questions are always clearer if you provide a complete small document showing the problem, normally multiline things are in a p column in which case linewidth is the answer. For l,c,r columns you could do do a two pass solution, or perhaps using tabularx X would meet the need, hard to say...

    – David Carlisle
    14 hours ago











  • @DavidCarlisle I've tried to give a more complete example of what I was hoping to do, but as this doesn't actually do what I want, I'm not sure how helpful it is at describing my intent.

    – Mark
    8 hours ago

















So you know the width of the widest element in one specific column, and you want another element to not exceed this width? Is this an l, c or r column?

– Werner
16 hours ago





So you know the width of the widest element in one specific column, and you want another element to not exceed this width? Is this an l, c or r column?

– Werner
16 hours ago













You could use sbox1{hbox{<Largest Column Item >} and then at the place you want to add the item parbox{wdsbox1}{hfil<Your item here>hfill}. Use hfil and hfill for centered item etc.

– koleygr
15 hours ago





You could use sbox1{hbox{<Largest Column Item >} and then at the place you want to add the item parbox{wdsbox1}{hfil<Your item here>hfill}. Use hfil and hfill for centered item etc.

– koleygr
15 hours ago




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1





questions are always clearer if you provide a complete small document showing the problem, normally multiline things are in a p column in which case linewidth is the answer. For l,c,r columns you could do do a two pass solution, or perhaps using tabularx X would meet the need, hard to say...

– David Carlisle
14 hours ago





questions are always clearer if you provide a complete small document showing the problem, normally multiline things are in a p column in which case linewidth is the answer. For l,c,r columns you could do do a two pass solution, or perhaps using tabularx X would meet the need, hard to say...

– David Carlisle
14 hours ago













@DavidCarlisle I've tried to give a more complete example of what I was hoping to do, but as this doesn't actually do what I want, I'm not sure how helpful it is at describing my intent.

– Mark
8 hours ago





@DavidCarlisle I've tried to give a more complete example of what I was hoping to do, but as this doesn't actually do what I want, I'm not sure how helpful it is at describing my intent.

– Mark
8 hours ago










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The following is not really automatic as you have to determine the widest entry manually, but might give you something close to what you described:



documentclass{article}

usepackage{calc}

usepackage{ragged2e}

usepackage{array}

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{Centeringarraybackslashhspace{0pt}}p{#1}}

begin{document}



begin{tabular}{cC{widthof{some other stuff}}c}

Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3tabularnewline

stuff & 

This text should be wrapped to the width of the column

but instead it makes the entire column extremely wide

 & stufftabularnewline

some other stuff & some other stuff & some other stufftabularnewline

end{tabular}



end{document}





share|improve this answer
























  • Yes... but in fact, if I knew which entry was otherwise the widest, I could just use that width for the varwidth entry itself. I would ideally like a solution that is more reusable, and independent of the entry that happens to have the widest entry.

    – Mark
    7 hours ago











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The following is not really automatic as you have to determine the widest entry manually, but might give you something close to what you described:



documentclass{article}

usepackage{calc}

usepackage{ragged2e}

usepackage{array}

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{Centeringarraybackslashhspace{0pt}}p{#1}}

begin{document}



begin{tabular}{cC{widthof{some other stuff}}c}

Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3tabularnewline

stuff & 

This text should be wrapped to the width of the column

but instead it makes the entire column extremely wide

 & stufftabularnewline

some other stuff & some other stuff & some other stufftabularnewline

end{tabular}



end{document}





share|improve this answer
























  • Yes... but in fact, if I knew which entry was otherwise the widest, I could just use that width for the varwidth entry itself. I would ideally like a solution that is more reusable, and independent of the entry that happens to have the widest entry.

    – Mark
    7 hours ago
















0














The following is not really automatic as you have to determine the widest entry manually, but might give you something close to what you described:



documentclass{article}

usepackage{calc}

usepackage{ragged2e}

usepackage{array}

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{Centeringarraybackslashhspace{0pt}}p{#1}}

begin{document}



begin{tabular}{cC{widthof{some other stuff}}c}

Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3tabularnewline

stuff & 

This text should be wrapped to the width of the column

but instead it makes the entire column extremely wide

 & stufftabularnewline

some other stuff & some other stuff & some other stufftabularnewline

end{tabular}



end{document}





share|improve this answer
























  • Yes... but in fact, if I knew which entry was otherwise the widest, I could just use that width for the varwidth entry itself. I would ideally like a solution that is more reusable, and independent of the entry that happens to have the widest entry.

    – Mark
    7 hours ago














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The following is not really automatic as you have to determine the widest entry manually, but might give you something close to what you described:



documentclass{article}

usepackage{calc}

usepackage{ragged2e}

usepackage{array}

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{Centeringarraybackslashhspace{0pt}}p{#1}}

begin{document}



begin{tabular}{cC{widthof{some other stuff}}c}

Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3tabularnewline

stuff & 

This text should be wrapped to the width of the column

but instead it makes the entire column extremely wide

 & stufftabularnewline

some other stuff & some other stuff & some other stufftabularnewline

end{tabular}



end{document}





share|improve this answer













The following is not really automatic as you have to determine the widest entry manually, but might give you something close to what you described:



documentclass{article}

usepackage{calc}

usepackage{ragged2e}

usepackage{array}

newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{Centeringarraybackslashhspace{0pt}}p{#1}}

begin{document}



begin{tabular}{cC{widthof{some other stuff}}c}

Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3tabularnewline

stuff & 

This text should be wrapped to the width of the column

but instead it makes the entire column extremely wide

 & stufftabularnewline

some other stuff & some other stuff & some other stufftabularnewline

end{tabular}



end{document}






share|improve this answer












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  • Yes... but in fact, if I knew which entry was otherwise the widest, I could just use that width for the varwidth entry itself. I would ideally like a solution that is more reusable, and independent of the entry that happens to have the widest entry.

    – Mark
    7 hours ago



















  • Yes... but in fact, if I knew which entry was otherwise the widest, I could just use that width for the varwidth entry itself. I would ideally like a solution that is more reusable, and independent of the entry that happens to have the widest entry.

    – Mark
    7 hours ago

















Yes... but in fact, if I knew which entry was otherwise the widest, I could just use that width for the varwidth entry itself. I would ideally like a solution that is more reusable, and independent of the entry that happens to have the widest entry.

– Mark
7 hours ago





Yes... but in fact, if I knew which entry was otherwise the widest, I could just use that width for the varwidth entry itself. I would ideally like a solution that is more reusable, and independent of the entry that happens to have the widest entry.

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