I think there's a longtable package that handles page breaks.


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On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:58 AM, Bernard Marsh <[email protected]>
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> My contribution, for what it's worth, to translation columns:
> In the past I have used the packages pdfcolparcolumns and multicol in LaTeX 
> to achieve what I wanted with translations. I'm afraid I cannot now remember 
> how I used them to that effect...
> Fr Bernard Marsh
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pierre François" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, 27 February, 2015 9:12:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gregorio-users] Sample of Chant with Psalms
> Hello 
> On 02/27/2015 01:21 AM, Br. Samuel Springuel wrote: 
> This cannot be done in the gabc. That only supports a single line of text. 
> To arrange the text as in that litany you'll probably want to use a table 
> which is stretched to fill the text width. Look for the tabularx package. 
> A problem with the tabularx environment of LaTeX is that it doesn't admit 
> page breaks inside of the table: your whole table must be on the same page. 
> So you have to compute how many lines will fit on your pages, and split your 
> table manually. This is annoying because when you change the layout of your 
> output, you will have to check that the page breaks are still on the right 
> place. 
> If you know a good solution for multi column output in LaTeX across several 
> pages, please let me know. 
> Yours in Christ. 
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