From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Long table, landscape or sideways, LaTeX PDF Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:45:56 -0400 Message-ID: <6336.1308109556@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53197) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWh4V-0005qV-Bz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:47:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWh4U-0007FM-4a for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:47:15 -0400 Received: from vms173017pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.17]:50461) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWh4T-0007ED-Qg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:47:13 -0400 Received: from alphaville.dokosmarshall.org ([unknown] [173.76.32.106]) by vms173017.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0LMT00354BU7J570@vms173017.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:47:01 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: Message from "Alan E. Davis" of "Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:50:40 +1000." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Alan E. Davis" Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, org-mode Alan E. Davis wrote: > I have to apologize first, as I had this working at home, to some extent. > Not well. I have to submit a printout of grades, today, if possible, and > I've been struggling with it. Can't find the cookbook formula! (I would > like to use the \footnotesize feature also). So far I've had to go through > each table, deleting long words, and deleting some fields. WOuld rather > have some way to do it as is. > > How to do this? The table should break over two pages. It would seem to me > that some combination of sidewaystable and longtable might do it. > > Thanks in advance. And sorry for the bandwidth. > Something like this perhaps: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #+LaTeX_HEADER: \usepackage{pdflscape} #+TITLE: #+AUTHOR: #+OPTIONS: author:nil date:nil toc:nil #+LATEX: \begin{landscape} #+ATTR_LaTeX: longtable #+CAPTION: Grades | Name | h1 | h2 | h3 | h4 | h5 | h6 | h7 | h8 | h8 | h9 | h10 | h11 | h12 | q1 | q2 | q3 | q4 | midterm | final | avg | grade | | |-----------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+----+---------+-------+-----+-------+----| | Doe, John | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 85 | 91 | | | | | Doe, John | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 85 | 91 | | | | | Doe, John | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 85 | 91 | | | | | Doe, John | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 85 | 91 | | | | | ... | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | | Doe, John | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 85 | 91 | | | | | Doe, John | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 85 | 91 | | | | | Doe, John | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 85 | 91 | | | | | Doe, John | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 85 | 91 | | | | | Doe, John | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 85 | 91 | | | | | Doe, John | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 85 | 91 | | | | | Doe, John | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 85 | 91 | | | | | Doe, John | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 85 | 91 | | | | #+LATEX: \end{landscape} --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Nick