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From: glenn@network.ucsd.edu (Glenn Sueyoshi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Help on tabular environment
Summary: longtable.sty now works
Message-ID: <5470@network.ucsd.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 91 07:17:53 GMT
References: <009499D5.177367A0.6104@Niord.SHSU.edu> <5434@network.ucsd.edu> <1991Jun14.140857.25984@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Jun14.140857.25984@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones) writes:

>In article <5434@network.ucsd.edu>, glenn@network (Glenn Sueyoshi) writes:

>>[stuff that I wrote about it not working]
>>I'm running LaTeX 2.09 <7 December 1989> under TeX 3.0 and have the
>>Mittelbach et al. font selection scheme installed.


>Since I haven't seen any response to this, I'll take the liberty of
>burdening the net with my analysis.
>
>The culprit is the M&S font selection scheme.  In particular,
>lfonts.new redefines \@tabclassz as follows:

[long analysis that's incomprehensible to me, but meaningful to
those more skilled at TeX than I]


Sorry to not follow up my own posting with something informative,
but I figured there was no one really cared... :)

David Jones wins the award for correctly identifying M&S as the 
culprit.  The other David (who wrote the .sty) has been in contact 
with me and has made a few changes to the .sty which seem to solve 
things.  He's also modified the \caption somewhat to more closely 
conform to LaTeX's treatment of multi-line captions.  There is
the possibility that a few other cosmetic changes may be made in 
the next week or so.  David is then planning on sending the .sty to
the relevant UK sites.  David or I can post here or send to US
sites as warranted.

Having said all that, I'd like to remove the qualification to my
support for this solution.  It's a pretty slick implementation of 
the kind of page-breaking tables that I've wanted for some time 
but did not find in the supertabular.sty and clones.  In particular, 
\longtable uses the same counters as \table so that moving from one 
to the other is pretty transparent.

My thanks to David Carlisle for his patience in dealing with me and
my unprovoked attack on his style :).  And applause to David Jones
for independently identifying the problem.  Are there any other
Davids that want to get in on this?


Glenn
gtsueyos@ucsd[.edu]