[OS X TeX] supertabular

[Dan Roscigno]

BTW, I found the definition of the tablespoon in the supertabular.dtx file:

\newcommand{\tbsp}{\rule{0pt}{18pt}}

I suspect this is what was giving people problems with the example.

Take Care,
Dan

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Dan Roscigno <dan.roscigno at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi John,
> If this is the example you are talking about:
>
> \begin{center}
> \tablefirsthead{%
> \hline
> \multicolumn{1}{|c}{\tbsp Number} &
> \multicolumn{1}{c}{Number$^2$} &
> Number$^4$ &
> \multicolumn{1}{c|}{Number!} \\
> \hline}
> \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}
> \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}
> \end{center}
>
> All I did was wrap it in a:
>
> \documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{article}
> \usepackage{supertabular}
> \newcommand{\tbsp}{\rule{0pt}{18pt}}
> \begin{document}
> .
> .
> .
> \end{document}
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:22 PM, John B. Thoo <jthoo at yccd.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi.  I hope I'm not committing a faux pas by asking a LaTeX question here.
>>  I am using TeX Live 2007 on my PowerBook, and I cannot get the example code
>> in "supertabular.pdf" to typeset correctly.  Any ideas what I may be doing
>> wrong?  TIA.
>>
>> ---John.
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> --
> Dan Roscigno
>
>


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