Re: Split and rescale table

["Eckhart Guthöhrlein" <eckhart.guthoehrlein@uni-bielefeld.de>]

Hans Hagen wrote:

>>
>> Something maybe similar I would be very interested in:
>> Take a given table (or whatever), split it into n balanced columns so 
>> that the minimum vertical space is needed. And then, take the whole 
>> thing and put it into a float.
> 
> i fear that this not (easily) possible (but never say never); maybe the 
> best is to make a separate document and include the pages (possible with 
> \externalfigure[...][...,page=])

I needed this to typeset a very long table with two very narrow columns, 
which had to be a float. And indeed, I made an extra document with five 
columns and included it as \externalfigure. Rather ugly solution, but 
since applications are rare, the effort for aesthetics would probably be 
disproportionate (if this is possible).

Eckhart