Re: [Gnumed-bugs] current_meds_notes placeholder

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 02:06:38AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> \noindent address@hidden|p{6.5cm}|l|p{6.5cm}|}
> 
> > Oh, OK. What *I* did not realize is that
> > 
> >     @{\extracolsep{\fill}}
> > 
> > is intended to define the width of the first column to:
> > 
> >     "as-needed + plus dynamic horizontal filler, total constrained by table 
> > width"
> > 
> > Correct ?
> > 
> > If so, why don't we "auto-size" all the columns (including
> > the p{6.5cm} ones) ?
> 
> I believe the @{\extracolsep{\fill}} *does* apply the dynamic horizontal fill 
> across *all* of the columns.

This

        http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/ltx-68.html

sounds different to me.

Let's use tabularx:

        
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables#The_tabularx_package_-_simple_column_stretching

Karsten
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