James Gregory wrote:
Once again I'm fighting the good fight trying to keep our documentation available as PDF and HTML. I have the problem at the moment that I need to include a huge table of error codes. One column of this table is a wordy description of the error (a short paragraph or so). I found the tabularx package which lets me wrap that column easily enough, but I also need the table to split into multiple pages in the pdf version, and produce a single big table in the HTML version. The "solution" I have at the moment is pure kludge and I'd really like to find something less awful.
For splitting the table over pages in PDF look at supertabular or the longtable. They automatically break the table at the end of the page and you get a "continued on next page" at the bottom of the page. Then on the next page the table starts with "continued from previous page" and on it goes. Its very neat.
Im not sure how latex2html or things of that ilk handle the longtable or supertabulars. It will probably just fall back to a single table if luck holds.
Yeah docbook would be good.While I'm at it -- LaTeX is driving me round the bend. What other options have I got for multi-output-format document processors? Ideally they should take care of layout like LaTeX does, but be less impossible to do things like multi-page tables in. Is docbook suitable for this?
But try supertabular and see how it goes. Search for the supertabular.dvi documentation on your system.
Mike -- Michael Lake Chemistry, Materials & Forensic Science, UTS Ph: 9514 1725 Fx: 9514 1460
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