Re: font size in a table.

gl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jay G. Scott) schrieb:

>
> i have a table that won't fit on a single page, but might if the
> font was smaller. longtable isn't doing what i want....
> there is a page break, but the first page somehow has the columns
> magically get wider in the middle of the page, so things look
> REALLY weird.

That can happen. Sometimes you need more LaTeX runs until longtable
gets all width right.

>
> anyway, i'm trying to change the font size,
> via
>
> \small
> \normalsize
> and NOTHING is happening.

That should work (\normalsize won't change much). Where did you put the
commands? Without a minimal example that shows what you did, it is
difficult to say what you did wrong.


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