I need to create multiple tables of the same width, one of them needs to be a longtable due to spanning multiple pages. I could set the width of all of them to a predefined value. However, I would rather like to take it from the natural width of one of the tables. How could I do this?
[Tex/LaTex] How to obtain width of longtable
longtabletableswidth
Related Solutions
(Without knowing much about your cell contents), You can use ltablex package and convert your long table in to breakable tabularx. Here one can use X column type that will be evenly wider.
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{ltablex} % uncommenting this line will work
\keepXColumns
\title{MyTitle}
\author{Me}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{First}
%some words here
\begin{landscape} %landscape mode
\begin{tabularx}{1.5\textheight}{l|l|l|X|X}
head1 & head2 & head3 & head4 & head5 \\
\hline
\endhead % all the rows above this will be repeated on every page
%col5 goes out of the page (the real text is much longer)
foo & foo & foo bar & foo bar foo bar foo bar & foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar \\ \hline
foo & foo bar foo & foo bar foo bar foo bar foo & foo bar & foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar \\ \hline
foo & foo & foo bar foo bar foo bar foo & foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar & foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar \\ \hline
%some more rows here
\end{tabularx}
\end{landscape}
\end{document}
Here's a tocloft - package solution for this problem.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\renewcommand{\cfttabpresnum}{\tablename\ } % Insert `Table before Table number in `LoT`
\addtolength{\cfttabnumwidth}{20pt} % Increase the width of the box reserved for the table numbers.
\begin{document}
\listoftables
\chapter{Foo}
\begin{longtable}{ll}
\caption{David's table} \tabularnewline
\endfirsthead
David & Carlisle \tabularnewline
\end{longtable}
\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ll}
Another & Table \tabularnewline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Another table}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Inside the
threeparttablexpackage I use this construction to detect the width from within the table itselfThen the width is then stored in
\TPTL@widthglobally. It takes a few compilations before it is stable.