Dear Sharon.
>>> I'm running into problems exporting tables into latex with a 2-column
>>> 3-row table with a large amount of text to go into the cells, but when
>>> its exported the text is taking over and overflowing off the pdf page.
I'm a newbie and confronted to this same situation found this latex
options (from the org-manual, but not obvious when you don't know what
you're searching):
#+CAPTION: This is your table caption (of course, it's optional).
#+NAME: table:yourtableid
#+ATTR_LATEX: :environment longtable :width 1\textwidth :font \small
\raggedright :align >{\raggedright}p{9cm} p{3cm}
| Here | comes | your | table |
|------+-------+------+-------|
| and | some | text | cells |
Let's break this into pieces:
:environment longtable
breaks across pages if too long.
:width 1\textwidth
it has the width of the text block
:font \small
assuming your latex class has a "small" font size definition,
can be tiny, miniscule, etc.
: \raggedright
don't justify a few words in short width columns, looks much better
:align >{\raggedright}p{9cm} p{3cm}
this defines the column align and width.
Try it, see what happens and let's optimize this together. :)
Best...
--
eduardo mercovich
Donde se cruzan tus talentos
con las necesidades del mundo,
ahí está tu vocación.
