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Wybo Dekker wrote:

> Hans Hagen wrote:
> > \startpostponing
> > whatever
> > \stoppostponing
> 
> That *does* postpone the start of the table to the next page indeed,
> but the splitting doesn't work well: the first page of the table shows
> a much smaller part of it than is available on the page and leaves the
> rest of the page empty. Please try the example below. Sorry for it
> being so long, I tried tried to use:
> 
> \repeat[80*{just some text before the table}]

More robust is: 

\dorecurse{80}{whatever}
\dostepwiserecurse{1}{80}{2}{whatever}
\doloop{whatever ..... \exitloop ....}

There is always \recurselevel and when used nested \recursedepth. (When
you want to manipulate: take a look at syst-gen.tex and syst-ext.tex,
they also provide you with quite some \doif.. things). 

> but that resulted in an error:
> ! Extra \fi.
> l.13 \repeat
>             [80*{just some text before the float.  just some text before the...

ah yes, \repeat, that's why recurse is better.  

> Now here's my example:

I'll do a bit of testing.  

BTW, I've just finished a new command that can be used for legends to
figures and tables, the better alternative for footnotes I think. More
later. 

Hans

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