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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 alignment -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 -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 -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 -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 -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 -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; but -it is outdated and not fully functional.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 -likely that support is available; but its user interface is much -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 -the widths of corresponding columns may differ on successive pages. -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 -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 -the head- and footline capabilities of the major packages. -<p/>Documentation of <i>ltablex</i> is to be found in the package file. -<dl> -<dt><tt><i>longtable.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>ltablex.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ltablex/ltablex.sty">macros/latex/contrib/ltablex/ltablex.sty</a> -<dt><tt><i>ltxtable.sty</i></tt><dd>Generate by running <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle/ltxtable.tex">macros/latex/contrib/carlisle/ltxtable.tex</a> -<dt><tt><i>stabular.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sttools.zip">macros/latex/contrib/sttools</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sttools.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sttools/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>supertabular.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supertabular.zip">macros/latex/contrib/supertabular</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supertabular.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supertabular/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>xtab.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xtab.zip">macros/latex/contrib/xtab</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xtab.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xtab/">browse</a>) -</dl> -<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=longtab">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=longtab</a> -</body> |