table alignment in LaTeX

thelonius · 10-03-2005, 10:44 AM

Hello,

I want that my two columns table takes the width of the page, i.e. the left column must be adjusted on the left margin, and the rigth column must be adjusted on the right margin of the page.

There must be some special package, but I cannot find it. I don't want to use the '\ \ \ \ \ ...'.

Anyone knows it ?

Thanks.

Robattack · 10-04-2005, 07:41 AM

Hello thelonius,

there is a package called "tabularx" (without the quotes of course ;-)).

the code could be something like this:

Code:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}  
\usepackage{german,tabularx}  

\begin{document} 

\begin{center} 
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|X|X|} 	
  \hline 	
  \raggedleft hello & world\\ 	
  \hline 	
  \centering here & \centering I am 	
  \cr 	
  \hline 
\end{tabularx} 
\end{center}    

\end{document}

hope this helps

robattack