[Tex/LaTex] Fitting table to the whole page

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How to fit the table into the page size in revtex 4.1

\documentclass[%
  aip,
  jap,%
  amsmath,amssymb,
  reprint,%
  ]{revtex4-1}

 \draft

\usepackage{graphicx}% Include figure files
\usepackage{dcolumn}% Align table columns on decimal point
\usepackage{bm}% bold math
\usepackage{times}
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{grffile}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{showframe}
\captionsetup{justification   = raggedright,
          singlelinecheck = false}
\usepackage{boxhandler}
\usepackage{float}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{\label{}}

\begin{ruledtabular}
\begin{tabular}{l*9 {c}}
System & a & b & c & d & e & f & g & h\\
\end{tabular}
\end{ruledtabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Best Answer

Edit: I assume, that with "whole page" you mean over both columns in two column text. In this case you need to use

\begin{table*} ... \end{table*}

however table will be moved to the next page. There is one more limitations. At use of tabularx and columns of type X, the width of this columns is wrong interpreted: each take width of whole table. So it is better to use tabular* and columns p{...} or others (c, l, r, m{...}).

\documentclass[%
  aip,
  jap,%
  amsmath,amssymb,
  reprint,%
  ]{revtex4-1}

\usepackage{graphicx}% Include figure files
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps}
\usepackage{epstopdf}

\usepackage{times,bm}

\usepackage{array,booktabs,tabularx}
\usepackage{dcolumn}% Align table columns on decimal point
\newcolumntype{C}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}

\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{grffile}
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{justification   = raggedright,
              singlelinecheck = false}
\usepackage{boxhandler}
\usepackage{float}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{showframe}

    \begin{document}
\lipsum[1-3]
    \begin{table*}[htb]
\centering
    \caption{}
\label{}
    \begin{ruledtabular}
\begin{tabular*}{\hsize}{l*9{p{0.08\hsize}}}
System & a & b & c & d & e & f & g & h\\
\end{tabular*}
    \end{ruledtabular}
\end{table*}

\lipsum[4-8]
    \begin{table*}[htb]
\centering
    \caption{}
\label{}
    \begin{ruledtabular}
\begin{tabular*}{\hsize}{l*9{p{0.08\hsize}}}
System & a & b & c & d & e & f & g & h\\
System & a & b & c & d & e & f & g & h\\
\end{tabular*}
    \end{ruledtabular}
\end{table*}

\lipsum[9-13]
    \begin{table*}[htb]
\centering
    \caption{}
\label{}
    \begin{ruledtabular}
\begin{tabular*}{\hsize}{l*9{p{0.08\hsize}}}
System & a & b & c & d & e & f & g & h\\
System & a & b & c & d & e & f & g & h\\
System & a & b & c & d & e & f & g & h\\
\end{tabular*}
    \end{ruledtabular}
\end{table*}
    \end{document}

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