Re: Newbie wants to make long tables

[Nigel King <king@dircon.co.uk>]

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.

TIA
-- 
Nigel

> From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
> At 08:44 20/08/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>> 
>> I'm wondering how to break up long tables over several pages,
>> automatically placing continuing headers and footers.
>> 
>> Thanks much for any help
> 
> this is supported in tabulate (by default), and can be turned on in the
> bTABLE mechanism (\setupTABLE[split=yes]) while (less robust) it's also
> available in \starttable by means of \starttables cum suis.
> 
> Hans