tabularx and formatting entire column

Question

This is obliquely related to this query, except that I would like to have a tabularx environment where the entire first column is in italics (or some other standard formatting). The following obviously does not work:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array, tabularx}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{>{\em}X{}<XX}
a & a & a \\
b & b & b
\end{tabularx} 
\end{table}
\end{document}

I do actually need tabularx since I expect the last column to contain quite long sentences.

answer already given but your code would have worked apart from {}< which should be omitted or should be <{} (Using \itshape is most likely more semantically correct than using \em but it would have worked) — David Carlisle, Oct 15 '12 at 16:28
Thanks David. I thought that this feature was not allowed with tabularx, not noticing that I was making a typo. — tchakravarty, Oct 16 '12 at 01:00

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 11 '17 at 20:14

5

Using {>{\itshape\arraybackslash}XXX} works:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array, tabularx}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{>{\itshape\arraybackslash}XXX}
a & a & a \\
b & b & b
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}
\end{document}

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edited Jun 11 '17 at 20:14

David Carlisle

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answered Oct 15 '12 at 16:09

tabularx and formatting entire column

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