Rolf Turner <r.turner(a)auckland.ac.nz> writes:
On 16/06/13 16:03, lee wrote:
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> Like I said, tables that may go over several pages are a pita with
> LaTeX. There are some packages to handle them, and the ones I tried
> failed miserably. If that was working, the output would look a lot
> better.
I have had good experiences with the longtable package. Does this
not do what you need?
Nope, there were all kinds of problems with it. IIRC, I tried two
different packages, one them being longtable, and I couldn't produce the
output I needed. I don't remember exactly all the problems ... Either
the table wouldn't fit or wouldn't go on over pages or was misplaced, or
things got broken because environments were used inside the table which
the table couldn't handle. Try a table that goes over several pages and
has tables and enumerations inside of it, something like that ...
What I'm dealing with now is emacs org mode tables: a simple table with
three columns and an undefined number of rows, one per file. That's
much easier to edit for me than a LaTeX source creating such a table. I
could make a perl script to convert these tables to something LaTeX
would understand, but I'm very reluctant to go to such lengths just to
find out that it doesn't really work with multi-page tables anyway.
Converting these org files into PDF shouldn't be so difficult :)
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