How can I restrict the size of my \multicolumn cells in a longtable?

2018-06-11 15:23:26

I have a really long table in LaTeX that spans several pages and is (as it is now) also too wide for the page.

I am using the longtable package with every column width specified with the p{width} command.

The problem is, that most of the rows contain a multicolumn call, and thus are not adhering to the preamble p{width} command, which causes the total width of the table to be too large.

Minimal example:

begin{longtable}{|p{1in}|p{0.75in}|p{0.5in}|p{0.5in}|>{p{1in}|p{1in}|}
caption{some cap} label{somelable}
hline
multicolumn{2}{|c|}{textbf{Text Header One}} & multicolumn{2}{|c|}{textbf{Text Header Two}} & multirow{2}{*}{textbf{Three}} & multirow{2}{*}{textbf{Four}} tabularnewline cline{1-4}
textbf{Five} & textbf{Six} & textbf{Seven} & textbf{Eight} &  & tabularnewline hline
Some Text String & Longer Text String Here & More Text Here & Text Example & Text & Text tabularnewline hline
Example Text String Two & Longer Text String Example Two & multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Multi-column Text String that doesn't fit column width} & Text & Text tabularnewline hline
Example Text String Two & Longer Text String Example Two & multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Multi-column Text String that doesn't fit column width} & Text & Text tabularnewline hline
Example Text String Two & Longer Text String Example Two & multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Multi-column Text String that doesn't fit column width} & Text & Text tabularnewline hline
Example Text String Two & Longer Text String Example Two & multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Multi-column Text String that doesn't fit column width} & Text & Text tabularnewline hline
Example Text String Two & Longer Text String Example Two & multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Multi-column Text String that doesn't fit column width} & Text & Text tabularnewline hline
Example Text String Two & Longer Text String Example Two & multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Multi-column Text String that doesn't fit column width} & Text & Text tabularnewline hline
Example Text String Two & Longer Text String Example Two & multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Multi-column Text String that doesn't fit column width} & Text & Text tabularnewline hline
Example Text String Two & Longer Text String Example Two & multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Multi-column Text String that doesn't fit column width} & Text & Text tabularnewline hline
Example Text String Two & Longer Text String Example Two & multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Multi-column Text String that doesn't fit column width} & Text & Text tabularnewline hline
Example Text String Two & Longer Text String Example Two & multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Multi-column Text String that doesn't fit column width} & Text & Text tabularnewline hlineExample Text String Two & Longer Text String Example Two & multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Multi-column Text String that doesn't fit column width} & Text & Text tabularnewline hline
Example Text String Two & Longer Text String Example Two & multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Multi-column Text String that doesn't fit column width} & Text & Text tabularnewline hline
Example Text String Two & Longer Text String Example Two & width of box & text & Text & Text  tabularnewline hline
end{longtable}

I am loading longtable in my preamble, and running pdflatex several times (as outlined in the longtable documentation). It compiles with 0 warnings and 0 errors.

How can I get normal "narrow" cells?

Have you tried using |p{<sum of widths>}| for the formatting option to multicolumn ?

Just guessing here.

You have to give a size parameter to multicolumns even though there is a preamble size. The next example is a multicolumn cell of the size of the table width:

begin{tabular}{p{0.3textwidth} p{0.7textwidth}}
multicolumn{2}{ p{textwidth}} {YOUR TEXT HERE}
end{tabular}

begin {longtable} {p {2.8cm} p {2.8cm}为我工作。

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