I am writing a longtable that spread across 2 pages. But LaTeX always adds starts the table in a new page rather than the previous blank page.
Now I want my longtable starts in the previous blank page (like the pictuer bellow), how can I do that? Thank you.
Here is my *.tex:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-3]
\begin{center}
\begin{longtable}{|p{2cm}|p{10cm}|}
\hline
\textbf{First} & \textbf{Second entry} \\
\hline
\endfirsthead
\hline
\endhead
\hline
\endfoot
\hline
\endlastfoot
1 & \lipsum[1] \\ \hline
2 & \lipsum[2] \\ \hline
\end{longtable}
\end{center}
\end{document}
center
environment, it just adds spurious space (it has no effect on its horizontal alignment) but here you have a long lipsum entry in the first row of the table so it does not fit in the previous page. (longtable only breaks between rows, not in the middle of a cell) – David Carlisle Jul 13 '16 at 9:47