Scaling down a wide table for PDF

[dhicks]

I'm working on an article manuscript that includes several very wide tables (regression coefficients from 3+ models) built using gtsummary. I'm having trouble figuring out a good way to display them in a PDF document.

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Here's what I've tried:

• knitr's columns are too narrow; I guess it kind of looks okay in landscape (table 4).
• huxtable either has narrow columns or goes off the page.
• Including a PDF of the table alone (generated using webshot) looks great (page 12), but cross-references don't work.
• I can't use \adjustbox because it needs to go between the table and tabular environments.

[arnaudgallou]

You can try kableExtra::kable_styling(latex_options = "scale_down") to adjust the width of the table to the page. kableExtra also allows you to control column widths and font size. That and possibly landscape mode should cover all cases. If not, it probably means that you need to rethink the structure of your table. E.g., one column = one variable or split your tables in smaller ones.

[produnis]

And how does it work with typst?

[mcanouil]

It does not as kableExtra does not support Typst and does not allow HTML table for non-HTML formats.

Side note: it's usually preferable to open a new thread that reference a 3-years old one rather than resurrecting it.