[texhax] Fixed width and height of table cells

[Uwe Lueck]

Susan Dittmar <SDittmar at eureca.de> schrieb am 04.05.2007 13:18:05:
> 
> Quoting ?????? ?????????? ????????? (lokhtin at irkutsk.bnk.ru):
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> > 1. Is it possible to create a table in LaTeX with FIXED width of the tabular and with the FIXED width of its columns?
> 
> How about using p{ <length> } columns?

Just this (without something additional) would require that 
table width depends on the widths of the single columns. 
Moreover, it would disable features of l, c, r columns. 
Rather, use tabular* or tabularx for fixed table width, 
together with the array package to define 

    \newcolumntype{C}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{2cm}}

or so -- I am steeling this advice from Martin Heller, March 8 this year. 

HTH -- Uwe.