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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 6-3-4 on page I-450 in "tabularx --- Automatic calculation of column widths".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% 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{207.0pt}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{tabularx} \tracingtabularx
\newcolumntype{?}[1]
{>{\setlength\hsize{#1\hsize}}X}
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}
{| ?{.85} | ?{1.15} |}
Superconsciousness is a long word &
Moge\-lijk\-heden en hoop \\
Some text in column one &
A somewhat longer text in column two \\
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}
