Latex

[roland]

Thank you very much, Kevin, for this extensive explanation. I will try  
this as soon as possible.

Roland

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:09:33 +0100, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>  
wrote:

> roland <roland <at> cat.be> writes:
>> - it only generates 1 page
>> - how to avoid a pagebreak in the middle of a group
>
> These are probably because it's one big "tabular" environment. "tabular"  
> isn't
> very smart, and IIRC it can't handle page breaks. Try "supertabular"  
> instead:
> \usepackage{supertabular}
> and then use "supertabular" instead of "tabular". It's included in  
> Fedora's
> tetex-latex package.
>
>> - the left margin is wrong, the whole thing has to move left
>> - Why does the left border goes to high
>
> You can use the \advance command to fiddle with margins, for example  
> like this:
> \advance\textheight5.5cm
> \advance\topmargin-3.5cm
> \advance\textwidth5cm
> \advance\evensidemargin-2.5cm
> \advance\oddsidemargin-2.5cm
>
> Another issue you might encounter one day is TeX refusing to stretch the  
> spaces
> enough to justify long lines. Instead, it will complain about "underfull
> hbox"es and wants you to change your content (for example make \tt  
> blocks,
> which are unbreakable, shorter). Of course, I don't want to change my  
> content
> just to please the layout engine, so I use this instead:
> \global\emergencystretch = 0.9\hsize
> This allows TeX to use up to 90% of the line for spacing. You can put  
> whatever
> other value there, just \hsize will turn the limit off completely. This  
> trick
> also works in other TeX-based formats, such as texinfo.
>
>         Kevin Kofler
>



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