Is there a way to have a table in LaTeX that spans multiple pages width-wise, rather than length-wise? As far as I can tell, both longtable and supertabular will break tables over multiple pages, but only by breaking between rows and I need to break between columns. Even better would be if it were possible to have a few columns repeated at on each page.
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I've been yanking my hair out with this same problem off and on for a week. I think that this may not be entirely possible in a non-hacky sort of way.
One possible hackly solution is to use the dpfloat package: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/dpfloat.html
Unfortunately, you'd be creating multiple tables and breaking them manually, but at least the end result should look okay. Also, this will look much better if you ditch vertical rules in your tables as per the sage guidance in the booktabs package (which you will have to google because apparently I, as a new user, don't have enough reputation to post a link to the booktabs pdf manual).
Peter
2010-09-12 16:19:15
I very much want it to do it automatically, but perhaps I will have to resign myself to it doing it manually. I have thought (as I'm planning to generate the tex file with Python) of writing the columns as rows, rotating each cell and using longtable or supertabular, but that still seems a bit mad and frustratingly inelegant.
hoyland
2010-09-13 15:27:45