[texhax] Column specifier question

E. Krishnan ekmath at asianetindia.com
Tue Oct 16 02:22:42 CEST 2007


On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Yiqing Jin (Denny) wrote:

> I need to give the columns some certain widths while at the
> same time requiring the text to be centre aligned. I have tried the
> \begin{tabular}{c c c c c}, and also the \begin{tabular}{... p{24mm}
> ...} commands, but how can I get them to work at the same time?

Does this help?


   \usepackage{array}

     \begin{tabular}{>{\centering}p{24mm}
                     >{\centering}p{24mm}
                     >{\centering}p{24mm}}
       a   & b   & c\tabularnewline
       def & ghi & jkl\tabularnewline
     \end{tabular}




-- 
Krishnan


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