[Tex/LaTex] table width passes right margin

marginstables

I have the following table. I have no idea how to edit in such a way that it does not overload till the end of the right margin. In other words I want the table within the margins (or page width).

\begin{tabular}{| c | l |}
\hline
$d$ & Primes that occurs in the denominator of $d$ \\
\hline
3 & -\\
\hline
6 & 2\\
\hline
12& 2, 11, 127\\
\hline
24  &2, 3, 11, 19, 43, 59, 127, 16490213\\
\hline
51  &29, 3041, 11497, 115565611397334238169231623190182913, 2836028200003852058503272908875165997\\
\hline
102 &2, 29, 557, 1063, 3041, 3331, 5147, 11497,  531847, 8769247, 108649481, 204147583, 1708442713 (cofactor 262 digit)\\
\hline
204 &2, 11, 29, 127, 211, 557, 1063, 3041, 3331, 5147, 8147, 11497, 531847 (cofactor 1256 digit)\\
\hline
267 &173, 28949\\
\hline
408 &2, 3, 11, 19, 29, 43, 59, 127, 211, 557, 1063, 3041, 3331, 5147, 5233, 8147, 11497 \\
\hline
534 &2, 173, 383, 1103, 6863, 20177, 28949\\
\hline
1068    &2, 11, 127, 173, 383, 1103, 2801, 4339, 4993, 6863, 20177, 28949\\
\hline
2136    &2, 3, 11, 19, 43, 59, 127, 173, 383, 1103, 2801, 4339\\
\hline
4539,9078,18156,36312   &   29, 173, 3041, 11497, 28949\\
\hline
\end{tabular}

Best Answer

You need to breack to long rows in your table in multi line rows. One way is usep{>width>} (see Roman Picot answer), the other way is to use \begin{tabularx}{<table width>}{...} instead of \begin{tabular}{...} environment. It is able to automatically adapt column width to remain space of table width. Of course, for its use you should add package tabularx in preamble:

\documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{tabularx}

    \usepackage{showframe}% for show text borders

    \begin{document}
\noindent
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|c|>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}X |}
\hline
$d$ & Primes that occurs in the denominator of $d$ \\
\hline
3 & -\\
\hline
6 & 2\\
\hline
12& 2, 11, 127\\
\hline
24  &2, 3, 11, 19, 43, 59, 127, 16490213\\
\hline
51  &29, 3041, 11497, 115565611397334238169231623190182913, 2836028200003852058503272908875165997\\
\hline
102 &2, 29, 557, 1063, 3041, 3331, 5147, 11497,  531847, 8769247, 108649481, 204147583, 1708442713 (cofactor 262 digit)\\
\hline
204 &2, 11, 29, 127, 211, 557, 1063, 3041, 3331, 5147, 8147, 11497, 531847 (cofactor 1256 digit)\\
\hline
267 &173, 28949\\
\hline
408 &2, 3, 11, 19, 29, 43, 59, 127, 211, 557, 1063, 3041, 3331, 5147, 5233, 8147, 11497 \\
\hline
534 &2, 173, 383, 1103, 6863, 20177, 28949\\
\hline
1068    &2, 11, 127, 173, 383, 1103, 2801, 4339, 4993, 6863, 20177, 28949\\
\hline
2136    &2, 3, 11, 19, 43, 59, 127, 173, 383, 1103, 2801, 4339\\
\hline
4539,9078,18156,36312   &   29, 173, 3041, 11497, 28949\\
\hline
\end{tabularx}
    \end{document}

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it is also possible to fiddle with a surrounding tabularx or a \parshape to get "unbalanced" columns:

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You can define a widetable environment that stretches to the outer margin. (To simplify things I'm assuming oneside with the marginpar space on the right). That allows the content, including the caption, to extend into the marginpar space.

Then you can use @{} to suppress the column padding and:

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\documentclass[draft]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\makeatletter
\newenvironment{widetable}
{\table
 \advance\hsize\marginparwidth
 \advance\hsize\marginparsep
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\makeatother

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\end{widetable}
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