HI Mike,
This problem is not "Tex" specific.
It is not easy to get large amounts of information onto a single page
or several.
The problem is more of getting it in a form that is informative and
precise without
leaving something out.
I agree that "TeX" has the advantage it is far easier to get
automatically, generated
information from diverse sources into a document formatted.
regards
Keith.
Am 03.10.2010 um 00:29 schrieb Mike Maxwell:
> On 10/2/2010 3:52 PM, Paul Isambert wrote:
>> And I'll add: printing a corpus with annotations that don't show up but
>> are fed to LuaTeX for statistics, and returned as tables. What I'm doing
>> right now.
>
> Interesting. We're producing grammars. They're XML (if you want to mark
> structure, use XML!), and they get converted to XeLaTeX for typesetting (if
> you want to typeset, use LaTeX!). One of the problems we've had is that of
> deciding whether tables are too large to fit on a page, and must therefore be
> printed with longtable instead of floating tables. We've also had a few
> tables that are too wide, and need to be printed in landscape mode.
>
> When we first faced this problem a couple years ago, I was surprised to find
> that there was no automatic way for LaTeX to detect the fact that a table was
> too long or wide to fit on a page. Fortunately, it's possible to tag long or
> wide tables in XML (DocBook), so the appropriate LaTeX table package is used.
> But that seems a poor way to do things; when somebody might want to print
> our grammar on a different size paper (A4, or maybe a book), they'll have to
> check each table to see whether it's appearing correctly.
>
> Automatically produced tables--which I gather is what you're producing from
> your corpus--might also suffer from that problem; I'm hoping you may have
> come up with a solution. Or are they all short and narrow enough that you
> know in advance that they'll fit?
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