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I have this output:

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Problem

Instead of hardcoding the resize parameter '0.8' in \resizebox{0.8\columnwidth}{!}{[...]} - I would like to make some sort of automatic resize function.

I have these two requirements:

  • I want the table to fill as much as possible/the rest of the page (in height/length of the paper)
  • But only to the extend, that the columnwidt of the table does not exceed the textwidth

Any idea of how to write this function in Latex? Or links to sources which may help me further with this task.

Tex Code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphics}
\usepackage{float}

\begin{document}


\section{Text}
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla


\section{Table}
\begin{table}[H]
\resizebox{0.8\columnwidth}{!}{
\begin{tabular}{lllll}
\hline
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{1}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{2}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{3}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{4}  & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{5}  & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{6}  & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
                         &                                &                                &                                &                                \ \hline
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{7}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{8}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{9}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{10} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{11} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
\multicolumn{1}{|l|}{12} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
\end{tabular}
}
\end{table}


\end{document}
User123456789
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    Have a look at tabularx. – NBur Feb 05 '21 at 09:10
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    Why do you use all these \multicolumn: only for the rules? – NBur Feb 05 '21 at 09:10
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    applying resizebox to tables should be avoided in almost all cases it is only ever a last resort and even then avoid it, certainly never want to apply it automatically. It produces inconsistent font sizes and rule widths. – David Carlisle Feb 05 '21 at 09:13
  • To NBur, I just generated the table in https://www.tablesgenerator.com/, it was faster than writing it myself. I gueess it's an leftover from last time I used tablegenerator – User123456789 Feb 05 '21 at 09:18
  • To David Charlisle, thanks for the warning. I didn't came across this problem yet and have tried with different parameters. Do you have any other solution to resize the table? – User123456789 Feb 05 '21 at 09:20

3 Answers3

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If you want your table to fit a given width, tabularx (thanks @David Carlisle!) is the way to go.

To simplify, I set up a new column type.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphics}
\usepackage{float}

\usepackage{tabularx}
\newcolumntype{C}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X} % from array package


\usepackage{lipsum}


\begin{document}


\section{Text}
\lipsum[2]

\section{Table}
\begin{table}[H]
    \resizebox{0.8\columnwidth}{!}{
        \begin{tabular}{lllll}
            \hline
            \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{1}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \\ \hline
            \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{2}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \\ \hline
            \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{3}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \\ \hline
            \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{4}  & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \\ \hline
            \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{5}  & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \\ \hline
            \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{6}  & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \\ \hline
                                     &                                &                                &                                &                                \\ \hline
            \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{7}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \\ \hline
            \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{8}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \\ \hline
            \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{9}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \\ \hline
            \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{10} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \\ \hline
            \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{11} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \\ \hline
            \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{12} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \\ \hline
        \end{tabular}
    }
\end{table}
\begin{table}[H]
        \begin{tabularx}{\columnwidth}{|l*{4}{|C}|}
            \hline
            1  & Something & Something & Something & Something \\ \hline
            2  & Something & Something & Something & Something \\ \hline
            3  & Something & Something & Something & Something \\ \hline
            4  & Something & Something & Something & Something \\ \hline
            5  & Something & Something & Something & Something \\ \hline
            6  & Something & Something & Something & Something \\ \hline
               &           &           &           &           \\ \hline
            7  & Something & Something & Something & Something \\ \hline
            8  & Something & Something & Something & Something \\ \hline
            9  & Something & Something & Something & Something \\ \hline
            10 & Something & Something & Something & Something \\ \hline
            11 & Something & Something & Something & Something \\ \hline
            12 & Something & Something & Something & Something \\ \hline
        \end{tabularx}
\end{table}




\end{document}

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NBur
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  • Well, it's not exactly what I was searching. I would like to adjust it in the height aswell – User123456789 Feb 05 '21 at 09:37
  • Could you elaborate the {|l*{4}{|C}|} part – User123456789 Feb 05 '21 at 09:38
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    What about @David's warning? If you need there is the ltablex package, merging the longtable and tabularx to deal with tabular on multi pages and with the X column type. – NBur Feb 05 '21 at 09:46
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    The | are for vertical rules, *{num}{columntype} says I want num columns with the same columntype – NBur Feb 05 '21 at 09:47
  • Thans for the clarification. I'm trying to work around the warning so instead of resizing, then using tabularx as you proposed, but adjusting in the height also by inserting air in the height. (Sorry for the bad explanation, but that is what I'm trying to accompilish, if I succeeds it will sure be more beautifull than my attempt with resize) – User123456789 Feb 05 '21 at 09:55
  • Thanks @campa: I edited the answer. – NBur Feb 05 '21 at 10:20
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As supplement to @Nbur answer ...

  • as already mentioned, use of use of the \resizebox lead to inconsistency between fonts size in table an in other text.
  • use of multicolumn{1}{...}{...} are just clutter in code
  • use of [H] as placement specification is dangerous. It can result in unexpected result as undesired empty spaces.
  • it is not clear, what you imagine with vertical stretching of table ... it also lead to change font size
  • do you really want to have an very ugly designed table?

Answer of @Nbur shows the way, how you can write a table. Here is just a cleanup of used code and some improvements in height of table:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\newcolumntype{C}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}

\begin{document}


\section{Text}
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla


\section{Table}
    \begin{table}[ht]
    \renewcommand\arraystretch{1.3} % <---
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{|l|C|C|X|X|}
    \hline
1   & Something  & Something  & Something  & Something  \ \hline
2   & Something  & Something  & Something  & Something  \ \hline
3   & Something  & Something  & Something  & Something  \ \hline
4   & Something  & Something  & Something  & Something  \ \hline
5   & Something  & Something  & Something  & Something  \ \hline
6   & Something  & Something  & Something  & Something  \ \hline
    &            &            &            &            \ \hline
7   & Something  & Something  & Something  & Something  \ \hline
8   & Something  & Something  & Something  & Something  \ \hline
9   & Something  & Something  & Something  & Something  \ \hline
10  & Something  & Something  & Something  & Something  \ \hline
11  & Something  & Something  & Something  & Something  \ \hline
12  & Something  & Something  & Something  & Something  \ \hline
\end{tabularx}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

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Zarko
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    And to correct a bit more the “ugly design”, you can use the booktab package (for instance). – NBur Feb 05 '21 at 10:12
  • Of course I don't want an ugly ass table xD The table was just generated in a website, only for this question. Well my problem is a have a lot of pages each concerning different topics and in the end of each of these pages there is an table. Some of the tables are inches too large to go on the same page as the text and other tables are very small so the page looks empty. So I thought I could automatic resize them, such that the filled as much as possible and the big ones get a little smaller to be contained at the page. I didn't thought so much of the impact of the fonts. – User123456789 Feb 05 '21 at 10:12
  • But I'm aware now, so thank you all for that. And especially thank you for the code to extend in width and height without changing the font. – User123456789 Feb 05 '21 at 10:15
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If you really want a resize of the whole table, but with some automation, have a look at the fitbox package: you can specify min and max lengths to adjust the content.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphics}
\usepackage{float}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{fitbox}


\begin{document}


\section{Text}
\lipsum[2]

\section{Table}
\begin{table}[H]



%       \resizebox{0.8\columnwidth}{!}{
        \fitbox[maxwidth=\columnwidth]{
            \begin{tabular}{lllll}
                \hline
                \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{1}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
                \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{2}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
                \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{3}  & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
                \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{4}  & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
                \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{5}  & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
                \multicolumn{1}{|l|}{6}  & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{Something} \ \hline
            \end{tabular}
        }
    \end{table}
    \begin{table}[H]
        \fitbox[maxwidth=\textwidth]{
            \begin{tabular}{|l|c|}
                \hline
                1  & Something\% & Something & Something & Something \ \hline
                2  & Something\% & Something & Something & Something \ \hline
                3  & Something\% & Something & Something & Something \ \hline
                4  & Something\ \hline
            \end{tabular}}
    \end{table}


\end{document}

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