What I would have written is that tabular* environments do tend to look bad if vertical rules are used in the interior of the table; the code example you use features two such vertical rules. Once the vertical rules are eliminated -- something that should probably be done anyway :-) -- the tabular* environment starts to come into its own. Incidentally, eliminating all vertical rules -- both ...
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From this reddit answer: You can also use normal tabular column types inside a tabularx environment. Since your table is \textwidth, you can define the first column as a fixed-width p{0.5\textwidth} and have the rest automagically determined by tabularx 's X width:
The tabular* is made to fitThe result is as follows. Perhaps, does anyone have any other reference to create a tabular table that I want, please? When I Replace \begin {tabularx} {0.8\textwidth} by \noindent\begin {tabularx} {\linewidth} , here is the result: Thank you in advance.
I wish to be able to have a table (using tabular) that fills the page horizontally with each column using a fraction of that space, for now assume that they are equally sized. I wish to be able to...