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(Bruce Cheng) writes:
>I am writing a program that generate LaTeX files.  There is a part
>that I wanted to generate tabels using latex "tabular" environment.
>The problem is if my table grew longer than textheight, I need to 
>	1) end the table environment; 
>	2) begin a new page and start another table environment on
>	   the new page and continue the table.
>... I am using art10.sty.  Do I need to change the style sheet in order
>to acheive this?  How?

Chris Torek replies:

>You have tackled a hard problem.  There are no standard general
>solutions.  Multi-page `tables' (which are not really tables; tables
>are unbreakable objects, which is why they are normally put inside
>floats) are an odd sort of creature and appear only rarely, so the
>usual approach is to consider what is in the `table' and make something
>up on the spot. 

Well, there is a Latex multi-page tabular environment that works
well. It is available from the Clarkson Latex-style archives
(sun.soe.clarkson.edu). I seem to recall that it is called
"supertabular.sty". 

Doug McDonald