[Tex/LaTex] resizebox doesn’t resize a tabular vertically

scalingtables

Why is that? Shouldn't they both be 2cmx2cm in size?!

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\resizebox{2cm}{2cm}{\rule{6cm}{7cm}}
\resizebox{2cm}{2cm}{\begin{tabular}{l l}A&B\\C&D\end{tabular}}

\end{document}

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You want \resizebox* not \resizebox the latter scales the height whereas the former scales height + depth. A tabular is vertically centred so the height is half its vertical extent.

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[Tex/LaTex] Use column-separator & (ampersand) inside \newenvironment

The problem is that the \begin{...} and \end{...} pair commands automatically create a "group" so that, in effect, the & and \\ are "out of scope" for the tabular, while inside the "production" environment they just show up at a place where the compiler is not expecting them.

A second problem with your definitions is that, even if they would work, they would be adding an extra \\ at the end of the tabular, adding an unwanted space at the end. Perhaps some more appropriate definitions would be

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}

\newcommand{\production}[1]{#1 ::= &}
\newenvironment{grammar}{\tabular{p{3cm}l}}{\endtabular}

\begin{document}
\begin{grammar}
\production{XmlStartTag} ... \\
\production{XmlOtherTag} ... \\
\production{XmlEndTag} ...
\end{grammar}
\end{document}

Note no \\ at the end of the last production. Also in the definition of the grammar you don't need to repeat the work of \begin/\end, and you can instead directly use \tabular and \endtabular.

[Tex/LaTex] resizebox doesn’t respect linebreaks

Both use a horizontal savebox to store and then scale the content. You can't have line breaks in this kind of boxes. While manual line breaks would be somehow possible (e.g. using some vertical stacked \hboxes), automatic line breaking only works when a specific width is given.

The adjustbox package supports a minipage=<length> key which automatically places a minipage around the content. Then line breaks will work.
It also has a tabular key, which also allows the stacking of lines, e.g. using tabular=@{}l@{} to left-align all lines without any separation on the right and left of the table. So your example could now be written as \adjustbox{tabular=@{}l@{},width=5cm}{Hello\\world\\}. Note that the trailing \\ is mandatory when tabular is used.

You can also use \shortstack{Hello\\world} (maybe with \struts included) to get the line breaking. Then there is the minibox package which provides a quick tabular as macro \minibox.

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