[texhax] tabular and page breaks

[George Georgalis]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 03:28:51PM -0600, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>On Nov 20, 2006, at 14:30 , George Georgalis wrote:
>
>> I have a basic tabular environment,
>>
>> \begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{lp{4.75in}@{\extracolsep{\fill}}}
>>
>> this makes two columns, first a word list, second
>> for definitions.  However it is about 110% of page
>> length---so that's a problem.
>>
>> I'm starting to try tabbing, however that yields
>>
>> |-----------------------textwidth-----------------------|
>> word a		abcd abcd abcd abcd abcd abcd abcd abcd abcd abcd abcd abcd  
>> abcd
>>
>>
>> when I really need the tabular, with paragraph box, rendering
>>
>> |-----------------------textwidth-----------------------|
>> word a		abcd abcd abcd abcd abcd abcd abcd abcd
>> 		abcd abcd abcd abcd abcd
>
>The following works ``out of the box'' (taken from "LaTeX Tutorials  
>---A Primer", by the Indian TeX Users Group, chapter VII: http:// 
>sarovar.org/projects/ltxprimer/ ):
>
>Best,
>
>Axel
>
>-------
>\documentclass{article}
>\begin{document}
>   \begin{center}
>     \begin{tabular}{lp{.8\linewidth}}
>       Planet  & Features\\[5pt]
>       Mercury & Lunar like crust, crustal faulting, small magnetic
>                 fields.\\
>      Venus   & Shrouded in clouds, undulating surface with highlands,
>                  plains, lowlands and craters.\\
>       Earth   & Ocens of water filling lowlands between continents,
>                 unique in supporting life, magnetic field.\\
>       Mars    & Cratered uplands, lowland plains, volcanic regions.\\
>       Jupiter & Covered by clouds, dark ring of dust, magnetic field.\\
>       Saturn  & Several cloud layers, magnetic field, thousands
>                 of rings.\\
>       Uranus  & Layers of cloud and mist, magentic field, some rings.\\
>       Neptune & Unable to detect from earth.\\
>       Pluto   & Unable to detect from earth
>     \end{tabular}
>   \end{center}
>\end{document}

that is what I had used, until the tabular got bigger than a page.

I'm figuring out how to use a list for this, but I see no examples
of this type and my syntax is not there yet...

// George


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