[OS X TeX] Re : Stupid question about the tabular environment

[Josep Maria Font]

El 17/01/2009, a las 20:12, Herbert Schulz escribió:

> On Jan 17, 2009, at 11:58 AM, philippe grandjean wrote:
>
>> With \begin{center} at the beginning and \end{center} at the en on  
>> my mac i
>> have a table perfectly balanced

> Howdy,
>
> Not here! If the table width is <=\textwidth it will be ok but with  
> a table width >\textwidth it will start at the left margin and only  
> stick out into the right margin.


Strange. It works well here (with *both* the \begin{center} ...  
\end{center} and the tabular inside a \makebox[c].

Anyway, I presume the definitive trick is to make LaTeX think the  
table has width zero, and center its contents in a zero-width box:

\begin{center}
\makebox[0pt][c]{put your tabular here}
\end{center}


JMaF