[texhax] table formatting problem

Sat Apr 2 05:57:31 CEST 2005

my Latex Companion says you should use either supertabular, or longtable.

maybe look into supertabular first.  longtable looks a bit more involved
(although, also more configurable)

bobby

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On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, M.N.A.Smadi wrote:

> hi;
>
> i have a table that has way too many lines and it cannot fit on one
> page, it does not show the table over two pages it just chops the lower
> part and as a matter of fact it continue until the end of the page
> without leaving any margins.  How can i have the same table show over
> multiple pages?
>
> The code am using is as follows:
> \begin{table}[hang]
> \centering
> \caption{XXX}
>
> \begin{tabular}{|l|p{5in}|}
>     \hline
> \textbf{\bf Message}  & {\bf Description}\\ \hline
>     \hline
> .
> my text is going here in.
> .
>
> \end{tabular}
> \label{tab:XXX}
> \end{table}
>
>
> thanks
> -ms
>
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