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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-longtab.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-longtab.html index b602016ad82..d55fbe8226f 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-longtab.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-longtab.html @@ -3,18 +3,18 @@ </head><body> <h3>Tables longer than a single page</h3> <p>Tables are, by default, set entirely in boxes of their own: as a -result, they won't split over a page boundary. Sadly, the world keeps +result, they won’t split over a page boundary. Sadly, the world keeps turning up tables longer than a single page that we need to typeset. <p>For simple tables (whose shape is highly regular), the simplest solution may well be to use the <code>tabbing</code> environment, -which is slightly tedious to set up, but which doesn't force the whole aligment +which is slightly tedious to set up, but which doesn’t force the whole aligment onto a single page. <p>The <i>longtable</i> package builds the whole table (in chunks), in a first pass, and then uses information it has written to the <code>.aux</code> -file during later passes to get the setting "right" (the package +file during later passes to get the setting “right” (the package ordinarily manages to set tables in just two passes). Since the -package has overview of the whole table at the time it's doing -"final" setting, the table is set "uniformly" over its entire +package has overview of the whole table at the time it’s doing +“final” setting, the table is set “uniformly” over its entire length, with columns matching on consecutive pages. <i>longtable</i> has a reputation for failing to interwork with other packages, but it does work with <i>colortbl</i>, and its @@ -22,37 +22,37 @@ author has provided the <i>ltxtable</i> package to provide (most of) the facilities of <i>tabularx</i> (see <a href="FAQ-fixwidtab.html">fixed-width tables</a>) for long tables: -beware of its rather curious usage constraints - each long table +beware of its rather curious usage constraints — each long table should be in a file of its own, and included by -<code>\</code><code>LTXtable{</code><em>width</em><code>}{</code><em>file</em><code>}</code>. Since <i>longtable</i>'s -multiple-page tables can't possibly live inside floats, the package +<code>\</code><code>LTXtable{</code><em>width</em><code>}{</code><em>file</em><code>}</code>. Since <i>longtable</i>’s +multiple-page tables can’t possibly live inside floats, the package provides for captions within the <code>longtable</code> environment itself. <p>A seeming alternative to <i>ltxtable</i> is <i>ltablex</i>; but it is outdated and not fully functional. Its worst problem is its strictly limited memory capacity (<i>longtable</i> is not so limited, at the cost of much complication in its code); -<i>ltablex</i> can only deal with relatively small tables, it doesn't seem +<i>ltablex</i> can only deal with relatively small tables, it doesn’t seem likely that support is available; but its user interface is much -simpler than <i>ltxtable</i>, so if its restrictions aren't a +simpler than <i>ltxtable</i>, so if its restrictions aren’t a problem for you, it may be worth a try. <p>The <i>supertabular</i> package starts and stops a <code>tabular</code> environment for each page of the table. As a -result, each 'page worth' of the table is compiled independently, and +result, each ‘page worth’ of the table is compiled independently, and the widths of corresponding columns may differ on successive pages. -However, if the correspondence doesn't matter, or if your columns are +However, if the correspondence doesn’t matter, or if your columns are fixed-width, <i>supertabular</i> has the great advantage of doing its job in a single run. <p>Both <i>longtable</i> and <i>supertabular</i> allow definition of head- and footlines for the table; <i>longtable</i> allows distinction of the first and last head and foot. <p>The <i>xtab</i> package fixes some infelicities of -<i>supertabular</i>, and also provides a "last head" facility -(though this, of course, destroys <i>supertabular</i>'s advantage +<i>supertabular</i>, and also provides a “last head” facility +(though this, of course, destroys <i>supertabular</i>’s advantage of operating in a single run). -<p>The <i>stabular</i> package provides a simple-to-use "extension to -<code>tabular</code>" that allows it to typeset tables that run over -the end of a page; it also has usability extensions, but doesn't have +<p>The <i>stabular</i> package provides a simple-to-use “extension to +<code>tabular</code>” that allows it to typeset tables that run over +the end of a page; it also has usability extensions, but doesn’t have the head- and footline capabilities of the major packages. <p>Documentation of <i>ltablex</i> is to be found in the package file. <dl> |