Longtable breaks when in a leftbar environment from the 'framed' package

Question

I'm having problems combining the framed package with the longtable package. In the example below, if I comment out the \begin{leftbar}... \end{leftbar} then the table works correctly. But when I add the bar, the continuation header and both the footers disappear from the table.

Please ignore the rpt loop (courtesy of this answer) and the dodgy formatting at the end. I just used that to reduce the number of lines in the example code. The same problem occurs when I write out all the lines by hand.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{framed}

\usepackage{forloop}% http://ctan.org/pkg/forloop
\newcounter{loopcntr}
\newcommand{\rpt}[2][1]{%
  \forloop{loopcntr}{0}{\value{loopcntr}<#1}{#2}%
}

\begin{document}

\begin{leftbar}
\begin{longtable}{|l|l|}
  \hline First top & First top\\ \hline\endfirsthead
  \hline  Top & Top\\ \hline \endhead
  \hline Last bottom & Last bottom \\ \hline \endlastfoot
  \hline \multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Continued\ldots} \\ \hline \endfoot
  \rpt[47]{Left & Right \\} \\
  \hline
\end{longtable}
\end{leftbar}

\end{document}

Answer 1

Maybe you can reach the desired result with without framed but adding a thicker vertical rule in the table.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{forloop}% http://ctan.org/pkg/forloop
\newcounter{loopcntr}
\newcommand{\rpt}[2][1]{%
  \forloop{loopcntr}{0}{\value{loopcntr}<#1}{#2}%
}
\newcolumntype{?}{!{\vrule width 4pt}}% from: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/156820/101651

\begin{document}

\begin{longtable}{?p{.2\textwidth}|l|l|p{.2\textwidth}}
  \cline{2-3} 
  & First top & First top &\\ \cline{2-3}
  \endfirsthead
  \cline{2-3}  
  & Top & Top\\ 
  \cline{2-3} 
  \endhead
  \cline{2-3} 
  & Last bottom & Last bottom \\ 
  \cline{2-3} 
  \endlastfoot
  \cline{2-3} & \multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Continued\ldots} \\ 
  \cline{2-3} \endfoot
  \rpt[47]{& Left & Right \\} \\
  \cline{2-3}
\end{longtable}

\end{document}

Edit: Looking at this answer, I found out there is changebar package, which I think is exactly what you need.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{forloop}% http://ctan.org/pkg/forloop
\newcounter{loopcntr}
\newcommand{\rpt}[2][1]{%
  \forloop{loopcntr}{0}{\value{loopcntr}<#1}{#2}%
}
\newcolumntype{?}{!{\vrule width 4pt}}% from: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/156820/101651
\usepackage{mwe}% for testing purpose only
\usepackage[color,leftbars]{changebar}
\cbcolor{blue}
\begin{document}
\cbstart
\blindtext
\begin{longtable}{|l|l|}
  \hline First top & First top\\ \hline\endfirsthead
  \hline  Top & Top\\ \hline \endhead
  \hline Last bottom & Last bottom \\ \hline \endlastfoot
  \hline \multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Continued\ldots} \\ \hline \endfoot
  \rpt[47]{Left & Right \\} \\
  \hline
\end{longtable}
\blindtext
\cbend

\cbcolor{red}
\cbstart
\blindtext
\begin{longtable}{|l|l|}
  \hline First top & First top\\ \hline\endfirsthead
  \hline  Top & Top\\ \hline \endhead
  \hline Last bottom & Last bottom \\ \hline \endlastfoot
  \hline \multicolumn{2}{|l|}{Continued\ldots} \\ \hline \endfoot
  \rpt[47]{Left & Right \\} \\
  \hline
\end{longtable}
\blindtext
\cbend
\end{document}