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For some reason, as I am trying to increase and add columns, it goes offscreen. Why does this happen exactly: Latex:

\documentclass[a4paper,svgnames,11pt]{article}

\textheight = 220mm
\textwidth = 150mm
\topmargin = 10mm
\oddsidemargin = 5.0mm
\evensidemargin = 5.0mm
\unitlength = 1mm


\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{threeparttable}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tabularray}


\usepackage{bbding}
\usepackage{pifont}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\usepackage{amssymb}


\begin{document}


{\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.6}%
\small
\begin{table}[htbp]
    \centering
    \caption{Comparison}\label{tab:comparison}
        \begin{tabular}{ |p{5cm}|p{3cm}|p{3cm}|p{3cm}|p{3cm}|p{3cm}| }
        \hline
        OS & \hfil Secure & \hfil Fast & \hfil Beautiful & \hfil Smart & \hfil Error free \ \hline
        Windows & \hfil \checkmark & \hfil \checkmark & \hfil \checkmark & \ \hline
        MAC OSX & \hfil \checkmark & \hfil \checkmark & \hfil \checkmark & \ \hline
        Linux & \hfil \checkmark & \hfil \checkmark & \hfil \checkmark & \ \hline
        \end{tabular}
\end{table}}


\end{document}

Result: enter image description here

Nicolas Martignoni
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Albin M
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  • width of your table is 20cm, declared text width is 15 cm , so it cannot fit in text area. You may consider to change column types to l or c and by this force that column widths will be adopt to width of cells contents. – Zarko Jan 19 '22 at 23:43
  • @Zarko, How would I do this? – Albin M Jan 19 '22 at 23:44
  • @Zarko, doesn't work. I am sorry. – Albin M Jan 19 '22 at 23:51
  • why are you forcing the columns to be so wide? p{5cm} for the first column seems excessive for the text you show, just use l so the column is the width of its content – David Carlisle Jan 19 '22 at 23:59
  • It works, for sure! See my answer. However, your question is not very clear about desired table layout. – Zarko Jan 20 '22 at 00:01

1 Answers1

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You have more issues with your MWE (Minimal working example):

  • document layout is not consistent. I suggest to use geometry package for defining it
  • because you load tabularray package I would use it for write your table:
  • MWE with only to your problem related packages is:
\documentclass[a4paper,svgnames,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[hmargin=5mm, vmargin={10mm,67mm}]{geometry} % new

\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{tabularray}


\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
    \centering
    \caption{Comparison}\label{tab:comparison}
        \begin{tblr}{hlines, vlines,
                     colspec={l *{5}{c}},
                     } 
    OS      & Secure     & Fast       & Beautiful  & Smart  & Error free    \
    Windows & \checkmark & \checkmark & \checkmark &        &               \
    MAC OSX & \checkmark & \checkmark & \checkmark &        &               \

    Linux   & \checkmark & \checkmark & \checkmark &        &               \
        \end{tblr}
\end{table}
\end{document}

enter image description here

(gray lines are borders of page)

Also seven columns can be fit in text area:

\documentclass[a4paper,svgnames,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[hmargin=5mm, vmargin={10mm,67mm}]{geometry} % new

\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{tabularray}


\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
    \centering
    \caption{Comparison}\label{tab:comparison}
        \begin{tblr}{hlines, vlines,
                     colspec={l *{7}{X[c,m]}},
                     } 
    OS      & Secure     & Fast       & Beautiful  & Smart  & Error free &  &   \
    Windows & \checkmark & \checkmark & \checkmark &        &            &  &   \
    MAC OSX & \checkmark & \checkmark & \checkmark &        &            &  &   \

    Linux   & \checkmark & \checkmark & \checkmark &        &            &  &   \
        \end{tblr}
\end{table}
\end{document}

enter image description here

Zarko
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