On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:20 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any
> > classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to
> > center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes
> > evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left**
> > they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border
> > of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any
> > more makes it too small.
>
> Is this a fixed-width column? If not, I don't see why the right side
> would intrude on the border -- the column should just get wider.
It is fixed width.
> > I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but
> > can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have
...
> I'm not aware of any separate left and right side padding, but then I'm
> not TeXpert. The length \tabcolsep is supposed to control the amount of
> space left between columns. It's described as half the intracolumn
> separation, which I take to mean that LaTeX will pad both sides of a
> table cell by that much. You could try \setlength{\tabcolsep}{something
> smaller} and see if it helps.
I'm not sure I've tried playing with this one, but know that attempts to
change the distance between columns (something in LyX's dialog) didn't
help. I'll play with it at work when I get there today.
Kenward
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