The current restriction on table width is not going to work for the more complex tables eLife (and presumably other journals) handle. It very rapidly becomes very cramped when dealing with more than six or seven columns, and tables can reach twenty columns +, or have a large amount of content per column cell.

The current restriction on table width is not going to work for the more complex tables eLife (and presumably other journals) handle. It very rapidly becomes very cramped when dealing with more than six or seven columns, and tables can reach twenty columns +, or have a large amount of content per column cell.