> \textwidth does not seem to be behaving consistently. Wrong, \textwidth is 1000% reliable, like the rest of TeX and LaTeX. You do however have to use it "within specifications": inside preamble only. I have found it to also be functional if one changes it and then forces a page break. Thta's not guaranteed though.
> I am getting some functionality from the tabularx and hhline packages. Unless you better describe what exactly you want to achieve, it's impossible to advise further. > I've no doubt that you would be worthy of the hire but I am too stingey to > pay. Thanks for the compliment ;) I would only ever consider html if I didn't care about exact layout and formatting. Formatting of html was left to the html renderer by intentional design, which is why two browsers never show the same result (and far too often useless in my experience). Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
