supertab.
This new style offers a new environment, the supertabular
environment. As the name says it is an extension of the normal
tabular environment.
With the original tabular environment a tabular must always fit
on one page. If the tabular becomes too large the text overwrites
the page's bottom margin and you get an Overfull vbox message.
The supertabular environment uses the tabular environment
internally, but it evaluates the used space every time it gets a
\\ command. If the tabular reaches the textheight,
it automatically inserts an \end{tabular} command, starts a new
page and inserts the tablehead on the new page continuing the tabular.
New commands to use with supertabular are:
\tablefirsthead{...} |
defines the contents of the first occurence of
the tabular head.
The use of this command is optional.
Don't forget to close the head by a \\
or \newline. |
\tablehead{...} |
defines the contents of all subsequent ocurrences of
the tabular head.
Don't forget to close the head by a \\
or \newline. |
\tabletail{...} |
defines something which should be inserted
before each \end{tabular}, except the last. |
\tablelasttail{...} |
defines something which should be inserted
before the last \end{tabular}.
The use of this command is optional. |
\topcaption{...} |
|
\bottomcaption{...} |
|
\tablecaption{...} |
Provide a caption for the super-table, either
at the top or at the bottom of the table. When
\tablecaption is used the caption will
be placed at the default location, which is at
the top. |
\\ or \\[...pt]. All column definition commands can be
used, including @{...} and p{...}. You can not use
the optional positioning argument and the width argument which are
possible with the \begin{tabular} command.
Here is an example of a supertabular. You will find the definitions at the end of the supertabular.
| Number | Number2 | Number4 | Number! | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 4 | 16 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 9 | 81 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 16 | 256 | 24 | ||
| 5 | 25 | 625 | 120 | ||
| 6 | 36 | 1296 | 720 | ||
| 7 | 49 | 2401 | 5040 | ||
| 8 | 64 | 4096 | 40320 | ||
| 9 | 81 | 6561 | 362880 | ||
| 10 | 100 | 10000 | 3628800 | ||
| 11 | 121 | 14641 | 39916800 | ||
| 12 | 144 | 20736 | 479001600 | ||
| 13 | 169 | 28561 | 6.22702080E+9 | ||
| 14 | 196 | 38416 | 8.71782912E+10 | ||
| 15 | 225 | 50625 | 1.30767437E+12 | ||
| 16 | 256 | 65536 | 2.09227899E+13 | ||
| 17 | 289 | 83521 | 3.55687428E+14 | ||
| 18 | 324 | 104976 | 6.40237370E+15 | ||
| 19 | 361 | 130321 | 1.21645100E+17 | ||
| 20 | 400 | 160000 | 2.43290200E+18 | ||
\newcommand{\tbsp}{\rule{0pt}{18pt}}
% I use \tbsp to get a vertical distance after \hline
\tablefirsthead{\hline \multicolumn{1}{|c}{\tbsp Number}
& \multicolumn{1}{c}{Number$^2$}
& Number$^4$
& \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Number!} \\ \hline\tbsp }
\tablehead{\hline \multicolumn{4}{|l|}%
{\small\sl continued from previous page}\\
\hline \multicolumn{1}{|c}{\tbsp Number}
& \multicolumn{1}{c}{Number$^2$}
& Number$^4$
& \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Number!} \\ \hline\tbsp }
\tabletail{\hline\multicolumn{4}{|r|}%
{\small\sl continued on next page}\\\hline}
\tablelasttail{\hline}
\bottomcaption{This table is split across pages}
\begin{supertabular}{| r@{\hspace{6.5mm}}| r@{\hspace{5.5mm}}| r | r|}
1 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\
2 & 4 & 16 & 2 \\
3 & 9 & 81 & 6 \\
4 & 16 & 256 & 24 \\[5mm]
...
19 & 361 & 130321 & 1.21645100E+17\\
20 & 400 & 160000 & 2.43290200E+18\\
\end{supertabular}
Here is another example whith a p column-definition. The tablehead
is the same as above. The tabletail is a double \hline
\arraystretch is set to 1.5 and font size is \small.
| 1 | 1 | 1 | here is a relative short entry | ||
| 2 | 1 | 1 | and here is a long entry, where line breaks and line breaks and line breaks have to occur | ||
| 3 | 1 | 1 | here is also a long entry, where also a line break should occur | ||
| 4 | 1 | 1 | here is also a long entry, where also a line break should occur | ||
| 5 | 1 | 1 | here is a relative short entry | ||
| 6 | 1 | 1 | here is also a long entry, where also a line break should occur | ||
| 7 | 1 | 1 | here is also a long entry, where also a line break should occur | ||
| 8 | 1 | 1 | and here is a long entry, where line breaks and line breaks and line breaks have to occur | ||
| 9 | 1 | 1 | and here is a long entry, where line breaks and line breaks and line breaks have to occur | ||
| 10 | 1 | 1 | here is also a long entry, where also a line break should occur | ||
| 11 | 1 | 1 | here is also a long entry, where also a line break should occur | ||
| 12 | 1 | 1 | here is a relative short entry | ||
| 13 | 1 | 1 | here is also a long entry, where also a line break should occur | ||
| 14 | 1 | 1 | and here is a long entry, where line breaks and line breaks and line breaks have to occur | ||
| 15 | 1 | 1 | and here is a long entry, where line breaks and line breaks and line breaks have to occur | ||
| 16 | 1 | 1 | here is also a long entry, where also a line break should occur | ||
| 17 | 1 | 1 | and here is a long entry, where line breaks and line breaks and line breaks have to occur | ||
| 18 | 1 | 1 | and here is a long entry, where line breaks and line breaks and line breaks have to occur | ||
Here is the same table again, but this time using the supertabular* environment and stretching the table to the full width of the text.