Re: problem with columns and TABLE

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:
> On Mon, May 05 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> > this is not possible with the TABLE and table environments because of a
> > switch in core-tsp, table are always splittet to the complete textheight.
> >
> > \ifinsidecolumns
> >   % brrr, assumes empty columns
> >   \global\setfalse\splitfloatfirstdone
> >   \scratchdimen\textheight % <-- fixed height
> >   \!!donectrue
> > \else
> >
> > You could try to use tabuate if possible because this did work also in
> > column mode.
>
> Hello Wolfgang,
>
> Unfortunately, I need the TABLE environment for several reasons. Do you
> think, that it would be possible to replace the \textheight by the
> remaining height of the page?

I replaced just \scratchdimen\textheight in the code fragment above with
\scratchdimen\dimexpr\textheight-\savedpagetotal\relax and this did work
in your example as long as the table fit on the current page and it did start
io the first column.

Hard to tell if a general solution is possible, we have to many different cases
for the tabe, it could be longer than one page and the values have changed
or you could have text in the column before the table and the length in the
first and the second column need to be different etc.

You could also not only rely on TeX's \pagegoal and \pagetotal parameters
because we're working with virtual pages and split the page at the end in
 two or more parts ...

Wolfgang
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