[pdftex] Rerunning pdflatex

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:30:06AM +0530, Prabhu wrote:

> >From longtable package,
> 
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/longtable.pdf
> 
> ?Note: Various parts of the following table will not line up correctly until
> this document has been run through LATEX several times. This is a
> characteristic feature of this package, as described below.?
> 
> Says we have to rerun pdflatex several times so that table will line up
> correctly. I am unable to understand how re-running the same .tex file makes
> the alignment right.

Package longtable uses the .aux file to store column widths.
Then it knows the widths of the previous run.

BTW, this is the wrong list for this kind of quesions,
because the question is not related to the extensions
of pdfTeX in any way.
Try the mailing list `texhax at tug.org' or the newsgroup `comp.text.tex'.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko Oberdiek
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