multipage tables with ctable package

Question

Does anybody know if it is possible to have a multipage table with the package ctable (I know that it is possible with longtable)?

My code is the following:

 \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \usepackage{lmodern}
    \usepackage[english]{babel}
    \usepackage[babel]{csquotes}
    \usepackage{array}
    \usepackage{booktabs}
    \usepackage{caption}
    \usepackage{subfig}
    \usepackage{rotating}
    \usepackage{ctable}

    \begin{document}
    \ctable[
    caption = Data Definitions and Sources,
    label = data,
    sideways
    ]
    {>{\bfseries}l p{0.3\columnwidth} c  c  p{0.3\columnwidth}}
    {
    }
    { \FL
    ....
    }
    \end{document}

Answer 1

If you want to keep the ctable input syntax and easily switch between tabularx based formatting and longtable based formatting you could do something like the following which adds a long key to ctable.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[babel]{csquotes}
\usepackage[backend=bibtex8, style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{ctable}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{pbox}
\usepackage{longtable}

\makeatletter



\newif\if@ctbl@long
\define@key{ctbl}{long}[]{\@ctbl@longtrue}

\long\def\foo#1\sbox#2!!{%
\long\expandafter\def\csname\string\ctable\endcsname[##1]##2##3##4{%
#1\if@ctbl@long\ctbl@long\fi\sbox#2}}



\expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\foo
\csname\string\ctable\endcsname[#1]{#2}{#3}{#4}!!


\def\ctbl@long\fi\sbox#1#2#3\@ctblend{\fi
\ctbl@@long#2%
}


\long\def\ctbl@@long#1#2#3#4#5#6{%
\ctbl@@@long#6%
}

\def\ctbl@@@long#1\begin#2#3#4\end#5{%
\def\@tempa{#5}%
\def\@tempb{tabular}%
\ifx\@tempa\@tempb\else\show\@tempa\ERROR\fi
\begin{longtable}{#3}%
\caption{\@ctblcaption\ifx\@ctbllabel\empty\else\label{\@ctbllabel}\fi}%
\endfirsthead
\caption*{\@ctblcaption\space(continued)}%
\endhead
#4\end{longtable}}

\makeatother

\begin{document}
\ctable[
caption = Data Definitions and Sources,
label = data,
long
]
{>{\bfseries}l p{0.3\columnwidth} c  c  p{0.3\columnwidth}}
{
}
{ \FL
a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\
a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\
a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\
a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\
a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\
a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\a&b&c\\
}
\end{document}

Answer 2

Sorry, I have just found the answer to a related question and it is the following:

The package doesn't provide such a possibility. The package uses minipage which makes it difficult to change the internal code. However I think switching to longtable isn't very hard.