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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 6-3-11 on page I-455 in "widetable --- An alternative to \protect \nxLenv {tabular*}".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See
https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{348.0pt}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{array,widetable}
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{widetabular}{287pt}
{*{2}{|>{\small\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{32mm}}|c|}
\hline\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{The p-columns} & Centered column\\\hline\hline
\empty
The Two Gentlemen of Verona &
The Taming of the Shrew &
The Comedy of Errors \\\hline
Love's Labour's Lost &
A Midsummer Night's Dream &
The Merchant of Venice \\\hline
The Merry Wives of Windsor &
Much Ado About Nothing &
As You Like It
\\\hline
Twelfth Night &
Troilus and Cressida &
\ldots
%Measure for Measure \\\hline
%All's Well That Ends Well &
%Pericles, Prince of Tyre &
%The Winter's Tale \\\hline
%Cymbeline &
%The Tempest & \\\hline
\end{widetabular}
\end{document}
