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I'm trying to print large tables for my own consumption (I'm using Plain TeX and eplain). They are tables of publications and I just want to be able to look at them. Each table will have a variable number of rows, possibly in the hundreds. Because the rows have a lot of content, the pages need to be landscape.

My problem is that the output of the code below is missing rows on the bottom of the table. I expected TeX to insert a page break and continue the rows on the next page. How can I do this?

FWIW, the Advanced TeXbook says that breaks should occur naturally; and TeX by Topic talks about having to do special things to discourage page breaks. I'm doing none of those but I still get no page breaks.

\input eplain

{
%% sets up the output page so it's landscape
\paperheight = 8.5truein
\paperwidth = 11truein
\pdfpageheight = 8.5truein
\pdfpagewidth = 11truein
\leftmargin = .1in
\rightmargin = .1in
\hsize = 10.8in
\vsize = 8in

\def\raggedcenter{\leftskip=0pt plus4em \rightskip=\leftskip%
  \parfillskip=0pt \spaceskip=.3333em \xspaceskip=.5em
  \pretolerance=9999 \tolerance=9999 \parindent=0pt
  \hyphenpenalty=9999 \exhyphenpenalty=9999}

\font\rm=pplr7t at 8pt
\font\it=pplri7t at 8pt
\font\sc=cmcsc10 at 8pt
\font\tt=pltt10 at 7pt
\font\entryfont=cmr8
\font\headerfont=cmr10

\rm

{\raggedcenter Symbolic Execution

}\vskip 10pt

\newdimen\hsizecol
\hsizecol=\hsize
\divide\hsizecol by4
\baselineskip=9pt
\tabskip=0pt\halign to \hsize{%
%% cite key
  \raggedcenter\tt#\hbox to 10pt{}&
%% authors
  \tabskip=0pt plus 1fil\vbox{\hsize=\hsizecol\raggedcenter#}&
%% title
  \raggedcenter\it#\hbox to 10pt{}&
%% other tags
  \raggedcenter#\tabskip=0pt\cr
%
  \headerfont Cite Key&
  \headerfont Authors&
  \headerfont Title&
  \headerfont Tags\hfil\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
%
  \noalign{\hrule}
  Anand+:TACAS2008&
  Saswat Anand and Patrice Godefroid and Nikolai Tillmann&
  Demand-Driven Compositional Symbolic Execution&
  hi\cr
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up vote 5 down vote accepted

It looks like you haven't taken account of \hoffset and \voffset which you want to set to -1in if you want the origin for measuring page sizes and margins to be in the corner of the page rather than 1 inch in. (If you add that default inch on to your \vsize and \hsize you will see that is greater than the pdf page size you have set, so it is being cropped.)

Also you have a spurious { at the beginning which generates an error about \end being in a group at the end of the document.

Ah the main issue actually is the rules are preventing page breaking. Change

\hrule

to 

 \hrule\penalty-5

in each case.

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If I take out all the page dimension settings (in that first block), the problem persists. Does it persist for you? (And I believe eplain will adjust \hoffset and \voffset when you set \leftmargin and \rightmargin.) – bueno Feb 25 '12 at 20:06
I fixed the syntax error in the example. – bueno Feb 25 '12 at 20:09
Ah sorry updated answer. – David Carlisle Feb 25 '12 at 20:13
Thank you! This works. – bueno Feb 25 '12 at 20:26

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