[Tugindia] three questions on tables

[H S Rai]

Today at 12:25pm +0530 Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:

>   how do i make a table go beyond a page?

Use `longtable'

Grab tutorial from http://tug.org.in

>   secondly, i have never been able to use multicolumn.

The tex code given below signature work fine. Study it.

HTH

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline
\multicolumn{2}{|l|}{some text here1}\\ \hline
\multicolumn{2}{|l|}{some text here2}\\ \hline
1&2\\ \hline
\end{tabular}

\end{document}