Tabulary on a rotated page does not use correct \textwidth

Question

I'm trying to have a tabulary-table on a landscape page in a portrait document.

Because I want to have the table use the full width, I tried to set it width to \textwidth, but the width of the table is only as wide as the textwidth is on a portrait page.

How can I make the table using the correct width?

Since I am using XeLaTeX the MWE contains Unicode-Characters!

MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tabulary}
\usepackage{lscape}
\title{MWE – tabulary rotate}
\subtitle{Textwidth is way to small}
\author{John Doe}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{landscape}
\begin{table}
\begin{tabulary}{\textwidth}{RJL}
\emph{Left} & \emph{Middle} & \emph{Right} \\
This is a text that shall be a litte bit longer, and longer!
& And even this text is meant to be not so short that it is just simple short…
& Also there is the last column, which shall not be just a handful of letters
but an full sentence instead, that doesn't not even to make sense!
\end{tabulary}
\end{table}
\end{landscape}
\end{document}

Heiko Oberdiek · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-26T20:33:04.390

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\linewidth can be used instead:

\begin{tabulary}{\linewidth}{RJL}

Package lscape does rotate \textheight, but does not change \textwidth. Probably a bug.

Update: It is a design compromise, see David Carlisle's comment.

edited Apr 26 '13 at 20:33

answered Apr 26 '13 at 19:59

Heiko Oberdiek

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not a bug, just a design compromise. lscape doesn't rotate the page head/foot and if you change \textwidth many settings of the page head went wrong. \linewidth is normally used within the page so it was safer to set that. – David Carlisle Apr 26 '13 at 20:14
@DavidCarlisle Thanks for the clarification. – Heiko Oberdiek Apr 26 '13 at 20:21
Oh +1 for giving the right answer:-) – David Carlisle Apr 26 '13 at 20:21
@DavidCarlisle - Is there a method to avoid the resulting overfull \hboxes? – kando Sep 03 '15 at 22:34
@kando there are no overfull hboxes that result from this answer. If you have overfull boxes perhaps some text doesn't fit something but you should open a new question, not in a comment on an old answer, and give an example that demonstrates the problem. – David Carlisle Sep 03 '15 at 22:37
@DavidCarlisle : Sounds good - I was worried of duplication : j – kando Sep 03 '15 at 22:38
@kando whatever your problem is it's almost certainly a duplicate (there are only so many ways a box can be full) but it won't be a duplicate of this question. – David Carlisle Sep 03 '15 at 22:40
@DavidCarlisle : Question asked here – kando Sep 03 '15 at 23:01

Tabulary on a rotated page does not use correct \textwidth

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