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here is my LaTeX: (how does one format it nicely?): [Edit:] Reducing the example

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{lscape}
\begin{document}
\begin{landscape}
\noindent 
\begin{longtable}{ll}
\caption[]{Decomposition } \\ 
  &   \\ \endhead\hline
 & 
$ \begin{array}{l}
1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ +1 \\ 
\end{array}$
\end{longtable}
\end{landscape}
\end{document}

And here is what I get: latest reduced example

original example .pdf

Thanks for your help in advance!

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Welcome to TeX.sx! A tip: If you indent lines by 4 spaces, they'll be marked as a code sample. You can also highlight the code and click the "code" button (with "{}" on it). Your example is also rather long: it would be best to construction a minimal working example (MWE). – Joseph Wright♦ Jun 28 '12 at 9:07
I have something closer to a MWE now. Don't know whether the landscape environment is an issue or not. – Todor Milev Jun 28 '12 at 9:39
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A longtable can have a page break only after a tabular line and this is before your long array which is for longtable one tabular line. You have to insert a manually page break. – Herbert Jun 28 '12 at 9:45

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It's clear that there is an error in the title of your question (my packages only have undocumented features never bugs:-)

You can use array package to make the longtable column math mode, then get rid of the inner array so that the table can break as you wish:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable,array}
\usepackage{lscape}
\begin{document}
\begin{landscape}

\begin{longtable}{l>{$}l<{$}}
\caption[]{Decomposition } \\ 
  &   \\ \endhead\hline
&1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1 \\& +1
\end{longtable}
\end{landscape}
\end{document}
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Thanks a lot! "It's clear that there is an error in the title of your question" >:) it was attention-seeking :) - glad it worked and sorry if it was too provocative :) – Todor Milev Jun 28 '12 at 11:16

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