ben@servalan.uucp (Ben Mesander) (03/21/91)
Hello, I have some tables that are larger than one page that I need to include in a LaTeX article. I end up having to break the tables by hand into separate tabular environments for each table. This has several problems: 1) LaTeX's idea of "here" (the \tabular [h] optional arg) seems to be unlike my idea of "here," like RIGHT HERE, not half a page later. 2) When I break the table up by hand, if text before the table is changed in the text, I have to re-break the tables appropriately. 3) I use the \caption command to insert the "table xx.-- continued" in the successive tables, but this throws the table numbering off. How can I avoid having to hard-code in the table number on successive pages? I assume this is some random counter, probably with a bunch of "@'s" in it. :-) 4) When I break it up into separate pages, then I have to use something like \clearpage or other matter gets inserted between successive parts of my table. Again, when I modify the document, this all has to be re-done. 5) The table of tables listing gets thrown off, because of the extra table numbers from the successive tabular environments. 6) When I don't care exactly where the figure goes, I've been having it show up in odd places. For instance, I have a table on page 3, and there's room for it where I have specified (I measured), but it gets put at the top of the next page. Fine, except that there's a paragraph started on the bottom of page 3, the figure at the top of page 4, and then after the figure, 1 and 3/4's line of text to finish the paragraph. It looks strange, and doesn't read well. Is there a way to tell LaTeX to insert figures between paragraphs? Also, how can I insert a table "right here" in the text, even if the resulting page spacing would be non-optimal? I'd like to use the tabular environment, so I can get the c\caption and the table of tables listing. I am aware that some of what I want to do may be bad typography, but that will not change the publications standards that I am required to conform to, so please, no unhelpful comments of that sort. I feel like I'm working against LaTeX rather than with it. I was hoping it would be more of a "markup language" than a "text processor", which is what I used the plain format for before I tried LaTeX. I'm hoping someone has written an environment for tabular environments larger than a page that has something like a \continuedcaption in it. Ben Mesander ben@servalan.UUCP bamesander@qvarsa.er.usgs.gov