In my document, I have a table with pretty much texts in it. One of my problem is that I have about 2, 3 hierchical levels of texts, such as
row 1: Description
row 2:
1. Advantages
a. on Structure
+ advantage of structures
+ advantage of structures
b. on Structure
+ advantage of structures
+ advantage of structures
2. Disadvantages
...
row 3: Solution
row 4:
1. Main solution
...
2. Alternative solution
I know it seems a bit unnatural to use table for that purpose, but it's because I'm trying to apply the template the administrators provide (which they use MSWord to create) on my Thesis.
As finding the way to do this, I figure out a pretty simple solution is to use tabular together with the numerate and itemize environment. However, the problem occurs when the table become pretty large as it expand over pages.
I also found a way to break the table down using longtable, but it seems not working well in this situation: because the contents in 1 row (say row #2) are all encapsulated between the scope of \begin{enumerate}...\end{enumerate}, the row cannot be broken into 2. Thus, it seems pretty ugly for the first small row 1 in a whole page and the big chunky row 2 in the next page. Actually, as I observe, the {longtable} can only breaks tables at each row (i.e. between row 1 and row 2 or between row 2 and row 3...), thus, even if the second row is more-than-one page long, it still remains in 1 page (leaving a part of content hidden at the page bottom)
Dont know it there's a way around this problem or I have to use another technique for my initial problem?