Re: Newbie wants to make long tables

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 08:36 12/09/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Hans,
>I have been looking at core-ntb (dangerous bend for me) and I found
>[b|e]TABLEhead, [b|e]TABLEbody and [b|e]TABLEfoot. I then put 2 + 2 together
>and made 5. It doesn't work as I expected. Are Table heads and foots
>available? TABLEbody gives no output and TABLEhead and TABLEfoot just place
>themselves at the end of table (head first, foot next) rather than at the
>beginning and end of each column. One version of my test code is below;
>
>\bTABLEhead
>\bTR \bTH Head 1 \eTH \bTH Head 2 \eTH \eTR
>\eTABLEhead
>\bTABLEfoot
>\bTR \bTH Foot 1 \eTH \bTH Foot 2 \eTH \eTR
>\eTABLEfoot
>\bTABLE[split=yes]
>\dorecurse{40}{\bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD \eTR}
>\eTABLE
>
>I have been looking forward to this feature for some time. If you work on
>it, it would be nice to have the middle table breaks to have their own heads
>and foots such that one can put 'continued' etc. into the table.

the following will repeat the head,

\bTABLE[split=repeat]
\bTABLEhead
\bTR \bTH Head 1 \eTH \bTH Head 2 \eTH \eTR
\eTABLEhead
\bTABLEfoot
\bTR \bTH Foot 1 \eTH \bTH Foot 2 \eTH \eTR
\eTABLEfoot
\bTABLEbody
\dorecurse{40}{\bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD \eTR}
\eTABLEbody
\eTABLE

since foots often contain sums or so, they are not repeated,

we could consider something

\bMIDDLE
\eMIDDLE

but it would require some close re-reading of the source code since the 
available size calculation is tricky (unless we limit sucn a middle to a 
one liner

Hans
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