Dear LaTeX users,
I have created a program to re-organise a data set into time-series tables for each unit (species). Depending on how many sub-units (stocks) each unit has, determines the width of the table, which is often too wide to fit on an A4 page. I would like to split these wide tables at a certain point (e.g after 9 columns) and continue the table below (see attachment). Someone suggested using longtable and landscape to do this but I can't figure out how. Any help is much appreciated.
Regards,
James
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Splitting a table that is too wide for the page
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Splitting a table that is too wide for the page
Instead of splitting the tables you could turn them by using the sidewaystable environment from the rotating package.
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Thorsten¹
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Re: Splitting a table that is too wide for the page
Thanks for the reply. The tables are for an annual publication that has a set code of formatting regulations. I could easily turn the tables sideways but we would probably get complaints from our patrons. It would be much better if I could figure out a way to split the table.
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Re: Splitting a table that is too wide for the page
In this case I see splitting into two separate tables as the only solution.
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Splitting a table that is too wide for the page
The ideas shown in this old thread perhaps may help.
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