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I asked a question here and egreg replied that the tabularx environment was not the right tool. He solved the problem with the tabular environment.
Werner didn't use it either.
In this question Mico also says that the tabularx environment is not suitable.



I thought the tabularx environment was adapted to get columns of the same width, but this can be done in the tabular environment as egreg did.




  1. Is the tabularx environment useful?

  2. When should we use the tabularx environment?

  3. Do you have any examples where this environment is useful?






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    I asked a question here and egreg replied that the tabularx environment was not the right tool. He solved the problem with the tabular environment.
    Werner didn't use it either.
    In this question Mico also says that the tabularx environment is not suitable.



    I thought the tabularx environment was adapted to get columns of the same width, but this can be done in the tabular environment as egreg did.




    1. Is the tabularx environment useful?

    2. When should we use the tabularx environment?

    3. Do you have any examples where this environment is useful?






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      I asked a question here and egreg replied that the tabularx environment was not the right tool. He solved the problem with the tabular environment.
      Werner didn't use it either.
      In this question Mico also says that the tabularx environment is not suitable.



      I thought the tabularx environment was adapted to get columns of the same width, but this can be done in the tabular environment as egreg did.




      1. Is the tabularx environment useful?

      2. When should we use the tabularx environment?

      3. Do you have any examples where this environment is useful?






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      I asked a question here and egreg replied that the tabularx environment was not the right tool. He solved the problem with the tabular environment.
      Werner didn't use it either.
      In this question Mico also says that the tabularx environment is not suitable.



      I thought the tabularx environment was adapted to get columns of the same width, but this can be done in the tabular environment as egreg did.




      1. Is the tabularx environment useful?

      2. When should we use the tabularx environment?

      3. Do you have any examples where this environment is useful?






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          Is the tabularx environment useful?




          Yes. But it's no environment intended to replace tabular with (i.e. it makes no sense to make every tabular a tabularx).




          When should we use the tabularx environment?




          You should use it when you need to calculate the width of a column with respect to a total width. Please note that if your columns are short and do not contain line breaks you do not gain anything from using tabularx. You can get fixed-width columns with regular p or wl specifiers.




          Do you have any examples where this environment is useful?





          • When you need to reproduce word processor tables it's quite useful as they are often using equally-sized columns.

          • When you are going to have several columns which should be of equal-size and which will have line breaks.

          • When you are in a hurry and do not want to do calculations.






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            Is the tabularx environment useful?




            Yes. But it's no environment intended to replace tabular with (i.e. it makes no sense to make every tabular a tabularx).




            When should we use the tabularx environment?




            You should use it when you need to calculate the width of a column with respect to a total width. Please note that if your columns are short and do not contain line breaks you do not gain anything from using tabularx. You can get fixed-width columns with regular p or wl specifiers.




            Do you have any examples where this environment is useful?





            • When you need to reproduce word processor tables it's quite useful as they are often using equally-sized columns.

            • When you are going to have several columns which should be of equal-size and which will have line breaks.

            • When you are in a hurry and do not want to do calculations.






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              Is the tabularx environment useful?




              Yes. But it's no environment intended to replace tabular with (i.e. it makes no sense to make every tabular a tabularx).




              When should we use the tabularx environment?




              You should use it when you need to calculate the width of a column with respect to a total width. Please note that if your columns are short and do not contain line breaks you do not gain anything from using tabularx. You can get fixed-width columns with regular p or wl specifiers.




              Do you have any examples where this environment is useful?





              • When you need to reproduce word processor tables it's quite useful as they are often using equally-sized columns.

              • When you are going to have several columns which should be of equal-size and which will have line breaks.

              • When you are in a hurry and do not want to do calculations.






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                Is the tabularx environment useful?




                Yes. But it's no environment intended to replace tabular with (i.e. it makes no sense to make every tabular a tabularx).




                When should we use the tabularx environment?




                You should use it when you need to calculate the width of a column with respect to a total width. Please note that if your columns are short and do not contain line breaks you do not gain anything from using tabularx. You can get fixed-width columns with regular p or wl specifiers.




                Do you have any examples where this environment is useful?





                • When you need to reproduce word processor tables it's quite useful as they are often using equally-sized columns.

                • When you are going to have several columns which should be of equal-size and which will have line breaks.

                • When you are in a hurry and do not want to do calculations.






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                Is the tabularx environment useful?




                Yes. But it's no environment intended to replace tabular with (i.e. it makes no sense to make every tabular a tabularx).




                When should we use the tabularx environment?




                You should use it when you need to calculate the width of a column with respect to a total width. Please note that if your columns are short and do not contain line breaks you do not gain anything from using tabularx. You can get fixed-width columns with regular p or wl specifiers.




                Do you have any examples where this environment is useful?





                • When you need to reproduce word processor tables it's quite useful as they are often using equally-sized columns.

                • When you are going to have several columns which should be of equal-size and which will have line breaks.

                • When you are in a hurry and do not want to do calculations.







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