tabularx preamble tweaks // column widths

Question

am using this: %%% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/97188/27721

\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{Z}{>{\centering\let\newline\\\arraybackslash\hspace{0pt}}X}

and would like to use (that is, integrate into the above) sth like that:

{>{\hsize=1.5\hsize}X>{\hsize=0.5\hsize}X}

(which is taken from David's tabularx manual)

how?

PS:

\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}*{1}{p{\mylengthydate}}*{1}{X}*{1}{Z}@{}}

UPDATE

Expanded the question with proper MWE here:

How to get alignment finally "right" with tabularx and an image?

Have you tried {>{\hsize=1.5\hsize}Z>{\hsize=0.5\hsize}Z}? — Mico, Jul 14 '15 at 09:24
Instead of *{1}{p{\mylengthydate}}*{1}{X}*{1}{Z}, it's perfectly OK to write p{\mylengthydate} X Z. — Mico, Jul 14 '15 at 09:30
@Mico http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/22757450#22757450 — David Carlisle, Jul 14 '15 at 09:32
@Mico Syntactically, how could I add {>{\hsize=1.5\hsize}Z>{\hsize=0.5\hsize}Z} or equivalent to the section before \begin{document}? To integrate it with \newcolumntype or sth else? — nutty about natty, Jul 14 '15 at 09:37
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Mico · Answer 1 · 2015-07-14T14:16:32.847

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Assuming you want the X column to be three times as wide as the Z column -- as well as the Z column type being defined as in your query above and there being no whitespace to the left of the first column or to the right of the final column -- you could set up the structure of the tabularx environment as follows:

begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{} p{\mylengthydate} 
                                >{\hsize=1.5\hsize}X 
                                >{\hsize=0.5\hsize}Z @{}}

edited Jul 14 '15 at 14:16

answered Jul 14 '15 at 09:35

Mico

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In more LaTeX sense >{\setlength\hsize{1.5\hsize}}X ... – Zarko Jul 14 '15 at 10:10
@Zarko - I feel comfortable with the syntax proposed in the user guide of the tabularx package... – Mico Jul 14 '15 at 14:14

tabularx preamble tweaks // column widths

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