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I am using a twoside document style and have a wide table crossing the right margin if it is on a right page. How can I disable the twoside style for just the table to center it. What is the correct way to solve this? This is a MWE.

\documentclass[11pt, a4paper, titlepage]{book}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{color,graphicx}
\usepackage{geometry}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage{ngerman}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}



\geometry{  a4paper,
            twoside,
            includemp,
            includehead,
            top = 30mm,
            headsep = 10mm,
            bindingoffset = 10mm,
            inner = 20mm,
            outer = 40mm,
            bottom = 45mm,
            marginparsep = 10mm,
            marginparwidth = 30mm
}
\savegeometry{myText}


\begin{document}
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\begin{table}[hp]
\begin{tabular}{p{2.5cm} l p{3.5cm} p{5cm} }
\hline
\cline{1-2}
wiiiiide text \\
\hline
abcd  wide text     &  abcd  wide abcd  wide text           & abcd  wide text  abcd  wide text   \\
abcd                       & abcd  wide text            & abcd  wide text   &   \\
abcd                       & abcd           & abcd  &   \\
abcd           & abcd   &1     &  \\
abcd                   & abcd    & 1    &   \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{\mbox{Looooooooong caption)}}
 \end{table}
 \end{document}
ShreevatsaR
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RootRaven
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  • does this solve your question: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/89462/page-wide-table-in-two-column-mode . I am genuinely curious how it's different. – Charlie Parker Jan 28 '22 at 02:02

2 Answers2

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You can place the tabular (not table) inside a \makebox of pre-specified width. Then it doesn't matter how big the table is; LaTeX will see it as a box of that pre-specified width. The benefit from doing so is that you can adjust the alignment to suit your needs while not seeing any overfull \hbox warnings - common when working with "too long/wide content":

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In the above output, the tabulars were set using

\makebox[\linewidth]{%
  \begin{tabular}{p{2.5cm} l p{3.5cm} p{5cm} }
    \hline
    \cline{1-2}
    wiiiiide text \\
    \hline
    abcd  wide text &  abcd wide abcd  wide text & abcd  wide text  abcd  wide text   \\
    abcd            & abcd  wide text            & abcd  wide text                  & \\
    abcd            & abcd                       & abcd                             & \\
    abcd            & abcd                       & 1                                & \\
    abcd            & abcd                       & 1                                & \\
    \hline
  \end{tabular}}

\makebox[\linewidth][r]{%
  \begin{tabular}{p{2.5cm} l p{3.5cm} p{5cm} }
    \hline
    \cline{1-2}
    wiiiiide text \\
    \hline
    abcd  wide text &  abcd wide abcd  wide text & abcd  wide text  abcd  wide text   \\
    abcd            & abcd  wide text            & abcd  wide text                  & \\
    abcd            & abcd                       & abcd                             & \\
    abcd            & abcd                       & 1                                & \\
    abcd            & abcd                       & 1                                & \\
    \hline
  \end{tabular}}

The first \makebox naturally centers its contents, while the latter is right-aligned.

Another option which includes adjusting the location of the \caption is possible via some help from varwidth:

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\begin{table}[hp]
  \makebox[\linewidth][r]{%
  \begin{varwidth}{\paperwidth}
    \begin{tabular}{p{2.5cm} l p{3.5cm} p{5cm} }
      \hline
      \cline{1-2}
      wiiiiide text \\
      \hline
      abcd  wide text &  abcd wide abcd  wide text & abcd  wide text  abcd  wide text   \\
      abcd            & abcd  wide text            & abcd  wide text                  & \\
      abcd            & abcd                       & abcd                             & \\
      abcd            & abcd                       & 1                                & \\
      abcd            & abcd                       & 1                                & \\
      \hline
    \end{tabular}

    \caption{\mbox{Looooooooong caption)}}
    \end{varwidth}}
\end{table}
Moriambar
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Werner
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Cosidering that your table appears to be far wider than the text block, it may not be possible to place the table on a page alongside regular text in an aesthetically pleasing manner. You may therefore want to look into using the rotating package and its sidewaystable environment, to place the table rotated 90 degrees on a page by itself. I.e., load the rotating package in the preamble and use \begin{sidewaystable} and \end{sidewaystable} instead of\begin{table}[hp]and\end{table}. (Since material in a sidewaystable environment is necessarily set on a separate page, there's no point in providing the [h] location specifiier.)

Mico
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  • I think this looks fine. Here an example where full width figures and tables where used in a twoside style thesis: http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/materials/publications/kurz2013a.pdf – RootRaven Oct 04 '13 at 04:20
  • @RootRaven - An interesting (appealing!) layout. The page setup in the link you provide is fairly different from the one of your MWE. The "gutters" (where the callouts appear) are nice and wide, and tables and figures are then allowed to take up the combined width of the text block and the gutter. – Mico Oct 04 '13 at 04:31