[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX: Forcing a very wide longtable to fit textwidth

longtabletables

All,

Having been through everything I can find here and trying all of them – I'm still stuck.
I have a very wide multipage landscape table that I want to throw in a thesis appendix. I just can't seem to force it to fit textwidth. Help would be definitely appreciated.

Example:

\begin{landscape}
\begin{longtable}

\caption[etc]{etc} \\
   \hline\noalign{\smallskip}
    Ref & DOI & Authors & Year & Title & Journal or Publisher & Volume & Pages\\
   \hline
   \endhead
   \hline
   \multicolumn{1}{r@{}}{continued \ldots}\\
   \endfoot
   \endlastfoot
   \hline

1 & 10.1007/BF00628820 & Akaogi, M.; Navrotsky, A. & 1987  & Calorimetric Study of High-Pressure Phase Transitions Among the CdGeO$_{3}$ Polymorphs (Pyroxenoid, Garnet, Ilmenite, and Perovskite Structures) & Physics and Chemistry of Minerals & 14 & 435-440\\

...

\end{longtable}
\end{landscape}

Help would be massively appreciated.
Edit: is there a way multirow could be used so I could manually wrap text to fit?

Best Answer

The main part of the longtable that controls the width is the part that you omitted from your example.

\begin{longtable}

on its own is a syntax error.

given

1 & 10.1007/BF00628820 & Akaogi, M.; Navrotsky, A. & 1987  & Calorimetric Study of High-Pressure Phase Transitions Among the CdGeO$_{3}$ Polymorphs (Pyroxenoid, Garnet, Ilmenite, and Perovskite Structures) & Physics and Chemistry of Minerals & 14 & 435-440\\

I would guess you want something like

\begin{longtable}{lll
                  >{\raggedright}p{3cm}
                  >{\raggedright}p{4cm}
                  >{\raggedright}p{3cm}
                  rr}

and adjust the widths to fit. (You need \usepackage{array} for the > syntax).

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