How to refer to the table width?

Asked Jun 20 '20 at 20:30

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I have a tabular or longtable table and sometimes need to refer to the table width. For example, I would like to add a multicolumn with a fixed width to allow for line breaks.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
Col1 & Col2 \
\multicolumn{2}{p{TABLEWIDTH}}{Some text longer than both columns.}
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Is there a "variable" that stores the table width?

asked Jun 20 '20 at 20:30

bumblebee

From another way, you can first store the "TABLEWIDTH" in a length, then use it in multiple places. – muzimuzhi Z Jun 20 '20 at 20:32
Your question seems to be quite similar to the following one I asked a while ago: How to automatically calculate the width of a multicolumn in a table based on the combined widths of the columns that are merged – leandriis Jun 20 '20 at 20:36
See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/16251/how-to-obtain-width-of-longtable – John Kormylo Jun 21 '20 at 16:32

How to refer to the table width?

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