Table width detection
A tabular whose columns exceed the available width spills past the column edge or across the central gutter in two-column layouts.
Quick answer
It estimates each table's natural width from its column specification and content, then compares that against the column width for your template. Moderate overflow is wrapped in \resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}{...}; tables too wide to read when scaled are promoted to a full-width table* float. Each decision is reported.
The problem
A tabular whose columns exceed the available width spills past the column edge or across the central gutter in two-column layouts.
How detection works
It estimates each table's natural width from its column specification and content, then compares that against the column width for your template.
What you get
Moderate overflow is wrapped in \resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}{...}; tables too wide to read when scaled are promoted to a full-width table* float. Each decision is reported.
Before and after
Wide table scaled to the column
Before
\begin{tabular}{llllll} ... \end{tabular}After
\resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}{%
\begin{tabular}{llllll} ... \end{tabular}}Frequently asked questions
Will my table become unreadable?+
If scaling would shrink the table too far, it is promoted to a full-width float instead of resized, so readability is preserved.
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