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 04-04-2007, 06:45 PM #1 hedpe Member   Registered: Jan 2005 Location: Pittsburgh Distribution: Ubuntu Posts: 378 Rep: how do you shrink a table in latex? Hey all, How do you shrink a table in latex? \small doesn't work, and specifying its width like this: Code: \begin{tabular*}{width}[pos]{cols} .. shrinks the size of the table but not the text, so the text overflows. any ideas? Thanks! George
 04-05-2007, 02:58 PM #2 Quigi Member   Registered: Mar 2003 Location: Cambridge, MA, USA Distribution: Ubuntu (Dapper and Heron) Posts: 377 Rep: For me, \small works; I'm putting an example where I used it below. The effect of \small is not very strong; use \tiny instead to see a big difference. You see my other efforts to squeeze the table: reducing table column separation to 5.8pt, and suppressing the (half) space before the first and after the last column with @{}. Code: \begin{table}[htbp] \begin{center} \tabcolsep 5.8pt \small \begin{tabular}{@{}l|llllllll@{}} & bott & c & c2 & dk & edif & font & polt & trat \\ \hline bott & 0 & 0.3957 & 0.3910 & 0.1553 & 0.2064 & 0.2588 & 0.1759 & 0.2079 \\ c & 0.3957 & 0 & 0.0159 & 0.5251 & 0.1811 & 0.5255 & 0.5381 & 0.2388 \\ c2 & 0.3910 & 0.0159 & 0 & 0.5296 & 0.1824 & 0.5386 & 0.5094 & 0.2412 \\ dk & 0.1553 & 0.5251 & 0.5291 & 0 & 0.3133 & 0.2071 & 0.2779 & 0.2884 \\ edif & 0.2064 & 0.1811 & 0.1824 & 0.3133 & 0 & 0.3237 & 0.2830 & 0.1132 \\ font & 0.2588 & 0.5255 & 0.5386 & 0.2071 & 0.3237 & 0 & 0.3364 & 0.3267 \\ polt & 0.1759 & 0.5381 & 0.5094 & 0.2779 & 0.2830 & 0.3364 & 0 & 0.3239 \\ trat & 0.2079 & 0.2388 & 0.2412 & 0.2884 & 0.1132 & 0.3267 & 0.3239 & 0 \end{tabular} \end{center} \caption{Dissimilarity between the descriptors and hence between the shapes of any two of the small test objects.} \label{tab:dist8} \end{table} Last edited by Quigi; 04-05-2007 at 03:10 PM.