{longtable} is a package for making tables that can be broken across pages.
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Longtable: page breaks within row possible?
I am editing a longtable. Some of my cells contain a lot of text. Page breaks seem to happen only where table rows end/begin. I'd like, however, for the rows to span pages; it's fine with me if, for ...
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longtable width expands at random
I am using the longtable package to generate tables that may extend past a single page, and I am coming up with a strange format on particular tables. The table itself looks like this:
And here is ...
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How does LaTeX make line-breaking for word that can not fit in cell?
Often in my tables LaTeX doesn't want to line-break a word that can not fit in a cell.
How I can teach it to split such a word?
As you can see in my example below the same word in some cases will be ...
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Multi-page with Tabulary?
I know that you can combine tabularx and longtable functionality with either ltxtable or ltablex, but is there something similar for tabulary? My searching has come up dry when looking for any way to ...
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LaTeX pushes the cell off the bottom of the page
I have a problem with too long text in one cell.
Text in cell is autocreated, and I cannot know previously how long will be it. When text is too long LaTeX pushes the cell off the bottom of the page.
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Too long hyperlink can not fit on page
I have a problem with a too long hyperlink.
This reference is one word, but it is too long and doesn't set the text width, so some part is pushed beyond the margin:
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Longtable doesn't work well with geometry [closed]
I would like to produce document with multiple longtables inside. I need to customize my headers with fancyhdr placing graphics inside it and modyfying page geometry. But then longtables have problems ...
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How to reduce height of one row in longtable?
I am preparing a document with a quite special format: the first row in a long table should be written with \scriptsize font:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{array}
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Bad width of head of longtable
Here is an MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{soul}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{multirow}
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how puts a long table in two columns [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Balancing long table inside multicol in LaTeX
In a document without columns, how puts only a long table in a two columns to save space ?
Others possible duplicate ...
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top-of-page positioning: \longtable vs. \tabular
Why is a longtable environment on top of pages vertically placed different to a tabular environment? I'm digging several days on this question and didn't find a way to align the longtable vertically ...
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long table in landscape environment
I am trying to insert a longtable in the landscape environment. Following some Google queries I found this stack overflow question "How do I make multi page landscape tables in LaTeX".
I followed ...
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Complex tables - commentry
I have a table which I need to go over multiple pages, hence I am using \usepackage{longtable}.
However I am also using \multirow as my comments are simply too long to fit into one! But there are ...
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Faulty page-break in longtable: starts with endfoot
while intensively using the longtable environment, I ran into a situation where a the table is broken to the next page immediately after its endfoot line, without any real table row on the starting ...
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CSVTools and Lines Every Fifth line [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Checking if a number is a multiple of 4
First, let me apologize for probably a dumb question. I'm trying to make a table, but I want to use CSVTools because, well ...
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How to avoid text overlap when using `multirow` in `longtable`?
I have a two column table. The first column contains (for eg) name and designation and second column has lots of text. I want the name and designation to stay close but on separate lines. For this I ...
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How can I repeat the header but not the caption with longtable?
I am trying to set up a longtable where the header is repeated on every new page but the caption only appears once at the top of the page.
The table is defined as follows:
\begin{longtable}{|l|l|l|}
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Longtable caption below table in LyX
In LyX I've created a longtable. In LyX the caption is below the table but in the PDF it is shown above the table. Is there a way to force the caption to be below the table in the PDF without ...
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Use lining figures in longtable
@TH. has shown a great way to use lining figures in tables:
Palatino fonts and the number 713
Is there an equivalent for a longtable?
Because neither @tabular nor @longtable gives me lining ...
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Underfull \vbox in each longtable… can it be fixed or must it be ignored?
I got some strange "underfull \vbox (badness 10000) detected at line ..." warnings, obviously at each of my "longtable"s. Is there a way to fix them (I actually don't see the cause) or do I have to ...
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Vertical aligning in longtable environment
i have got a longtable that spans over many pages and contents both graphics and text. Now i want to align both columns vertically to the top, but the text column is being automatically parsed to the ...
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How to get \marks with longtable?
I'm using longtable and trying to use \marks. So far I've got no luck.
MWE:
\documentclass[a5paper,pagesize]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{scrpage2}
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Clearing the footer inside tabular data after some of the content
The europecv package, which I'm using to typeset my CV, seems to use the longtable package for the whole content and this presents a problem for me. I have no direct access to the tabular commands, I ...
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How do I break a long table cell/row using the europecv package? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Table environment that can break inside a cell
Using the europecv package to typeset my CV, I mostly use the \ecvitem command which. The whole Europass CV is built ...
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href{} in longtable{} simply printed verbatim
When using href{} inside a longtable, its simply printed out in a verbatim way. How can I make it behave like expected (produce a working link in the pdf file that shows the href label?
Here is a ...
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Command takes effect before environment
Is it possible to add a \vspace{-\baselineskip} inside, .e.g., longtable (or other environment} to take effect before the environment starts? MWE which has no effect.
\documentclass{article}
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Threeparttable and longtabu with consistent topskip
I am trying to have a big table (break across pages) with footnotes and a column with adjustable width. The MWE is the following.
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{blindtext}
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Strange problem with `longtabu`
I would like to share with you a quite simple example LaTeX is not able to compile.
I use the longtabu environment provided by tabu package. I am using commands from booktabs as recommended in the ...
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footnotesize not working with longtable and landscape
I can get \footnotesize to work when I'm using landscape & longtable. However, my table is landscape with table-->longtable in the environment, and when I do this I can't get the \footnotesize ...
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Caption at foot of long tables ('longtable' package)
I would like to ask a question about longtable package. I've already posted it in other forums.
I have a long table (a several-pages-long one) using longtable package and I would like to add a table ...
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Error using longtable and xwatermark
I am experiencing some issues when I use longtable and xwatermark.
If the table starts in page X and finishes two page later, I get an error : ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing ...
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Multicolumn width in longtable
How do I set the multicolumn width in longtable cells? If you run my MWE, you'll see that the first row of my longtable exceeds page limits.
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside]{report}
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How to get longtable and bidi to work together?
I am typesetting a Hebrew document using bidi. The material in the longtable environment still comes out LTR. How do I make it work?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
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How to get longtable to make the rows flushbottom?
I have a longtable where every row can have a slightly different height and is followed by a \hline. How can I get the rows of the pages to be \flushbottomend?
Here's a MWE:
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longtable leaves final page with default margins
A multi-page table formats more or less OK, but the last page reverts to the default margins.
(Minor question: I assume my inability to make the table fill the height of the page with \textheight is ...
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Centering a table while ignoring the 1st column in centering procedure
I want a table to be centered except I don't want the first column to be considered in the centering procedure. That is, I want columns 2 to N to be centered perfectly, and column 1 to be hanging off ...
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Vertical Alignment in multirow using cells with >1 lines
I want to vertically align (best would be to center) the text ("TEST") in the left (yellow) column of the following table. It works fine with multirow when every row has exactly the hight of one line:
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Longtable exceeds page length
My longtable exceeds the page length. Any help would be highly appreciated.
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside]{report}
\usepackage{fontenc}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{array}
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When using longtable, my table counter starts from 2 rather than 1. Why?
When using longtable, my table counter starts from 2 rather than 1. Why?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{array,booktabs,longtable}
%\extrarowheight5pt
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How do I number appendix longtables and include them in the *ToC*?
I am writing my PhD dissertation.
I have many appendices (like 6?), mostly tables.
As it happens automatically for tables and figures, I'd like to get a label plus progressive number before I ...
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Landscaped longtable doesn't allow appendix title on same page
My landscaped longtables leave the appendix title page and are placed on the next page. Now the appendix title page is empty, apart from the one-line title. What can I do about it?
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Avoiding bottomrule to go to next page [duplicate]
Sometimes my longtable bottom rules end up in the following page. How do I avoid that?
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How do I set right alignment in a longtable column with a fixed width?
How do I set right alignment in a longtable column with a fixed width?
I have \begin{longtable}{p{3cm}p{8cm}}
and I'd like my first column to be aligned on the right.
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Vertical line in longtable
I would like my vertical line to be slightly detached from the horizontal lines. I am using
\usepackage{longtable}.
\footnotesize
\begin{longtable}{r | p{10cm}}
\caption{My caption 1\label{1}}\\
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How to interrupt longtable to place float (figure)?
I am writing a document describing a process step by step. After trying with enumerate (which did not look so appealing) I switched to longtable.
This longtable can span more than two full pages.
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Page numbering in longtable [closed]
I have a table that needs to span on multiple pages. For this I've used longtable.
For each page that the table spans i need to specify something like page current_page/total_number of pages (not for ...
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Why does LaTeX longtable start on next page? [closed]
I have a 3-column-longtable that spans over several pages, there's no problem with that. The thing is that there's some text before the longtable. Instead of starting right under the text, LaTeX ...
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Prevent longtable breaking in multirow
How can I prevent multirow from breaking in longtable environment, so this won't break at wrong position as shown by code below.
\documentclass{article}
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longtable in LaTeX too wide?
I am having problems with a longtable, it goes off the side of the page and any attempt to limit the width only seems to work on the first page. Here is a cut down version of my table
% Appendix B
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Wrong layout: the text crosses the border of paper
UPDATE. The combination of the longtable and figure given below results in misplacement of the following text. The text must go to the third page, but it doesn't. Instead of this it crosses the border ...

