%% %% A DANTE-Edition example %% %% %% Copyright (C) 2009 H. Voss %% %% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions %% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 %% of this license or (at your option) any later version. %% %% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details. %% %% ==== % Show page(s) 1 \documentclass[]{article} \pagestyle{empty} \setlength\textwidth{194.59192pt} \setlength\parindent{0pt} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[english]{babel} \setlength\textwidth{6cm} \setlength\parskip{8pt plus 3pt} \usepackage{tabularx,ragged2e} \begin{document} Text before the table which spans the whole line to show that the table is that wide as well.\par \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{} >{\setlength\hsize{0.7\hsize}\RaggedRight}X | >{\RaggedRight}p{1cm} | >{\setlength\hsize{1.3\hsize}\RaggedRight}X@{}} The width of the column is determined automatically. & This column is 1\,cm wide. & The width of the column is determined automatically. \end{tabularx}\par Text after the table which spans the whole line to show that the table is that wide as well. \end{document}