line-breakingtabularx
I have a long word inside my tabular I need to break. The other rows and columns look perfect, but since this is only 1 word, the actual word overlaps on the other column. Not ideal.
Is there a SIMPLE fix? Basically here's how I make the tabular:
\begin{tabular}{|p{3.5cm}|p{3.5cm}|}
\hline
Header
&
Header 2\\
\hline
Marketingdivisiontesttesttest
&
Some more text\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
Microsoft Word breaks the word easily.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\subsection{\sloppy longlonglong wordswordswordwords that will cause problem}
\blindtext
\end{document}
You can do it by giving a little help to tabularx; since you want to span two equally wide columns, you tell LaTeX that the natural width is twice the reserved width, plus twice the \tabcolsep.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{dcolumn}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\newcommand{\mc}{\multicolumn} % handy shortcut macro
\newcolumntype{Z}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X} % handy shortcut macro
\newcolumntype{d}[1]{D{.}{\cdot}{#1}} % and yet another handy shortcut macro
\begin{document}
% TABLE 1
\noindent
The width of the text block is indicated by this horizontal rule:
\hrule
\begin{table}[htp]
\centering
\caption{multicolumn\{2\}\{X\}\{text\} }
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{l*{3}{d{-2}}}
\toprule
& \mc{1}{X}{} &
\mc{2}{>{\hsize=\dimexpr2\hsize+2\tabcolsep}X}{%
A very long text that should span two columns, not one.
`X' does the trick, with a little help.} \\
\cmidrule{3-4}
& \mc{1}{Z}{(1)} & \mc{1}{Z}{(2)} & \mc{1}{Z}{(3)} \\
\cmidrule(r){2-2} \cmidrule(lr){3-3} \cmidrule(l){4-4}
& \mc{1}{Z}{Median} & \mc{1}{Z}{Low} & \mc{1}{Z}{High} \\
\midrule
bla bla bla & 2.74 & 31.0 & 1.2 \\
ble ble ble ble & 31.81 & 1.14 & 11.10 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Best Answer
The first word in a paragraph isn't hyphenated. Use
\hspace{0pt}orlualatexwhichwill hyphenate also the first word.