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On Tue, 4 Jun 91 08:37:20 CDT, Max Hailperin <max@nic.gac.edu> forwarded a
request from and reply to Bernd Bachmann <bachmann@dfki.uni-kl.de> to 
LaTeX-help-toughies@cs.stanford.edu.  I am posting back to these addresses
and to INFO-TeX/comp.text.tex.

From: Max Hailperin <max@nic.gac.edu>

> I was only able to suggest supertab.sty in response to the following
> query, and that doesn't do the full job (it assumes each line is the
> standard size, and hence won't cope with the parboxes).  Does anyone
> have a better solution to the problem below?

> Date:     Fri, 31 May 91 13:26:44 MET DST
> From: Bernd Bachmann <bachmann@dfki.uni-kl.de>
> To: LaTeX-help@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
> Subject:  Help on tabular environment (already mailed on Mon, 13 May 91)
> Organization:  German Research Center for AI (DFKI)

> Hi there,

> is there an easy way (hack or styles) to get tables (in the tabular
> environment) automatically, dynamically separated which are longer
> than the remaining space of the current page (longer than a page at
> all)? A repeating header line for each page should also be provided,
> though not necessary. Additionally, there are columns in the table
> which are defined as parboxes (p{...cm}) with an abitrary number of
> text lines!

> Thanks in advance,

> - Bernd

There is a style file available from FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET named LONGTABLE
which (sort of) handles p-width columns in a {longtable} environment
written by David Carlisle <carlisle@uk.ac.man.cs> dated 20/12/90.  It is
similar to {supertabular}, but does a few other things as well (such as
stepping and using the table counter, providing a caption, etc.).  The main
limitation on p-width columns is that they are not split across pages
(properly counted w.r.t. lines used, but splits only occur on \hlines and
line breaks).  It can be used with small memory systems as well as big TeX
by controlling a chunk size variable provided in the style file.  David was
nice enough to provide an overview TeX file for instructions on use
(including a discussion of the chunk size variable).

To retrieve both LONGTABLE.STY and LONGTABLE.TEX, include the command:
SENDME STY.LONGTABLE*
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET.  As always, please
note the syntax reversal used on FILESERV's style archive, and (in this
case) note the use of the "*" wildcard to get both files.

Regards,   George
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