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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: multipage \begin{tabular} environment in LaTeX and footnotes
Message-ID: <1990Jul30.001214.3578@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 30 Jul 90 00:12:14 GMT
Organization: Home System (One of the Eternal Champions); Eagan, MN, 55123-2507, USA
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I have a (relatively) large table set up in LaTeX that runs about 50 or 60
lines of information, split into 3 columns.  It is pretty simple and starts out
like this:


\documentstyle{article}
\setlength{\topmargin}{-1in}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.32}
\begin{tabular}{||l|l|l||}
\hline\hline
\multicolumn{3}{||c||}{\bf\huge Minnesota Field Hockey Association} \\
\multicolumn{3}{||c||}{\bf\LARGE North Central Section} \\
\hline\hline
{\em Name} & {\em Address} & {\em Phone\footnote{All phone numbers are in the
(612) area code unless otherwise noted.}} \\ \hline

Lastname1, Firstname & Some address is here & (h) home-phone \\ \hline
Lastname2, Firstname & Some address is here & (h) home-phone \\ \hline
Lastname3, Firstname & Some address is here & (h) home-phone \\ \hline
   :
   :


I have experienced a number of problems with this:

	1)  The very first thing that is done is eject a blank page.  I can't
	figure out why this should be.  Although not fatal, it is annoying.

	2)  Originally, I had all the rows of the table in one big table, but
	found that the bottom two thirds of the table would go off the bottom
	of the page.  So, I split the table into three smaller tables.  Is this
	necessary?  Is there a way for LaTeX to automatically compute how much
	of a table will fit on to a page and continue the table on the next
	page?

	3)  I tried adding footnotes and, although the footnote superscripts
	are being correctly generated in the printed matter within the table,
	the actual footnote is no where to be seen.  Is there any way to get
	footnotes in tables?

	4)  The two vertical bars seperating columns of the table extend upwards
	into the second line of the title area (\multicolumn), but not the
	first line.  I don't see anything different about the two \multicolumn
	lines that would cause this problem except for the font difference.  Is
	this a bug in LaTeX or in the particular driver i'm using?  (dvie24)


Any help would be appreciated,

derek
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Derek Terveer						det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG
Minnesota Field Hockey Association, North Central Section
University of Minnesota Women's Lacrosse