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[Gnumed-devel] Long tables (was Re: More than eight drugs)
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Busser, Jim |
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[Gnumed-devel] Long tables (was Re: More than eight drugs) |
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Mon, 22 Jul 2013 07:58:32 +0000 |
On 2013-07-21, at 10:55 PM, Vaibhav Banait <address@hidden> wrote:
> If the medications list contained more than 8 drugs, the current medications
> list print out in such a way that the generated pdf contained demographic on
> one page and medications table on the other . Tex file so generated is
> attached herewith. Kindly help.
>
> Vaibhav Banait<MED.TEX>
Hi,
I did not yet fully figure out the method, however the medication list in the
attachment uses the package tabularx, which cannot itself split tables across
multiple pages. There exists a ctan topic
typeset tables that may be too big for a page
here ...
http://www.ctan.org/topic/table-long
and a helpful general resource about tables in Latex, here:
http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2007-1/mori/mori.pdf
(see in particular section 3.4 page 27)
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Splitting tables across multiple pages can apparently be achieved by
1) supertabular, xtab, longtable mentioned in
http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2007-1/mori/mori.pdf
--> page 28
2) ltxtable which combines longtable and tabularx (whose own package manuals
may need checking)
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ltxtable
3) ltablex
http://ctan.org/pkg/ltablex
4) the tabu package which provides the longtabu environment
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tabu
http://www.dille.name/notes/tex/longtabular.html
but if it is desired for cells to be able to be split, to avoid to use a table
layout (which thereby avoids cells) and instead using a list layout
Reference:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/60319/implementing-page-break-in-tabularx-environment
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For a general change of font sizes try the appropriate switches around the
concerned environment.
\small
\begin{longtable}
% table contents
\end{longtable}
\normalsize
Reference:
http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=6892&p=26840#p26855
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-- Jim