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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 6-4-5 on page I-464 in "xltabular --- Marriage of tabularx and longtable".
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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.
%%
\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{348.0pt}
\setcounter{page}{1}
% some special header and footer for the book
\makeatletter
\def\@oddfoot{\hrulefill\quad Page \thepage\quad \hrulefill}
\let\@oddhead\@oddfoot
\let\@evenhead\@oddfoot
\let\@evenfoot\@oddfoot
\setlength\textheight{6\baselineskip}
\makeatother
\AtBeginDocument{\Large} % large fonts as the book display is scaled down
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{xltabular}
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{xltabular}[c]{.85\linewidth}{llX}
\caption{A table with \texttt{X}-columns} \endfirsthead
entry 1.1 & entry 1.2 & entry 1.3, a long text entry needing two lines.\\
entry 2.1 & entry 2.2 & entry 2.3, a long text entry taking several
lines when set in a narrow column.
\end{xltabular}
\end{document}
