I have a fixed-column long table, with much text inside, that spans about three pages. I set it using the supertabular package, and for the most part it is working (I will still have to go back to manually tweak a few things once the document is complete). However, I sometimes wonder if longtable would have been a better choice.
Looking for troubleshooting tips for tables in this site, I noticed that there are a little over three times as many questions tagged for longtable than there are for supertabular. I could speculate that this is either because supertabular has fewer undesirable side-effects or because longtable is the preferred package, therefore more people will have problems with it. I have tried them both, and by putting enough time into them I have gotten the desired results; however, the question still nags me: which one is the right one (or the better one) for which type of long-table?
supertabularcan be for you. :) – egreg May 9 '12 at 15:11longtabufromtabu? – Harish Kumar May 9 '12 at 15:45longtabu. I am not entirely sure what you mean about it getting "less love thansupertabular". – ArTourter May 9 '12 at 16:58longtabuuseslongtableinternally. – cgnieder May 9 '12 at 17:01longtablethen any bug or problem reports don't go to me. That is a definite advantage of using those packages. – David Carlisle May 9 '12 at 18:49