Page Layout ⇒ Latex writing below my footer in some cases

[henrikandresen]

Hello all

Edit: I have found a smaller minimum working example, which is now included!

I'm working on creating a tool for creating an automatic latex document from a c++ header file. This works quite well, and I have defined some \newcommand to help reduce the size of the autogenerated file, as a lot of repetition happens. The file is mostly sequential sections of tables, a figure and 3-4 lines of text.

I use the fancyhdr package and have both a header and a footer. I also use the longtables package to allow for tables that are both long, and so they aren't being placed with a lot of space in between.

Now.... at one point something odd happens. For some reason, latex allows the creation of a new table, right on top of my footer, but only sometimes. At other times it makes a perfect seperation of two parts of a longtable, and continues on the next page.

I compile using pdflatex and texniccenter ver. 1 release candidate 1. Since my code is quite large even for a minimum working example, I don't know if I should post it here, but here goes. All real data has been removed, in case you were wondering

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}       %Dansk tegnsætning
\usepackage[english]{babel}         %Dansk orddeling
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}        %Valg af font
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{lastpage}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage[pdftex]{color,graphicx}        %Indsættelse af grafik
\usepackage{fancyheadings}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
\input{doc_setup}
%% Start the latex document
\begin{document}                
\section{DEFINITIONS}
\subsection{Overview}
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\footnotetext[1]{These records are available by subscription only.}
\begin{spacing}{1.2}
    \begin{center}
        \begin{longtable}{|p{2.5cm}|p{8cm}|}
        
            \caption[Definitions]{Definitions} \\           
            \blackcell{Type} & \blackcell{Description}\\\hline
            \endfirsthead
            \caption[]{Definitions (continued)} \\          
            \blackcell{Type} & \blackcell{Description}\\\hline
            \endhead
            \endfoot
 
 
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Run LaTeX here

And also the support code called in "\input{doc_setup}

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%% Helper functions
\newcommand{\tm}{$^{\textrm{tm}}$}
\newcommand{\dgr}{$^{\circ}$}
%% Header and Footer setup
\setlength{\headwidth}{16cm}
\setlength{\headrulewidth}{0.0pt}
\setlength{\plainfootrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\setlength{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\lfoot{\hspace{.2cm}Document}
\cfoot{ Page \thepage \hspace{.1cm}of \pageref{LastPage}}
\rfoot{\today\hspace{.2cm}}
\lhead{}
\chead{\vspace{-1cm}\renewcommand\arraystretch{1.5}\large
\begin{tabular}{|p{3cm}|p{4cm}|p{2cm}|p{2cm}|p{3cm}|}
\hline
\multirow{2}{3cm}{\vspace{-.35cm}} & Document Number: & 1& Version: & 1 \\\cline{2-5}
 & Document Title: & \multicolumn{3}{|l|}{Title} \\\hline
\end{tabular}
}
\rhead{}
\pagestyle{fancyplain}
%% Page layout
\setlength{\textheight}{205mm}
\setlength{\topmargin}{5mm}
\setlength{\textwidth}{160mm} 
\setlength{\hoffset}{1.5cm}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-1.5cm}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{-1cm}
%% Setting font to Arial
\usepackage[scaled]{uarial}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{phv} % Arial
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{phv} % Arial
 
 
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I don't know how to post a pdf document, but if you get yours to compile fine, can you give me the compiler name?

Have anybody ever experienced something similar, and what did you do?

Thank you all

Henrik

[henrikandresen]

Hello all

Just gonna post a reply, since I "may" have found a workaround. The error does not show in appr. 30 pages of this, but proving that and error is gone is always difficult

Anyway.... what I had in the document was a longtable for my long tables, and a normal table for noteboxes and some other graphics. When I changed this to a minipage and a longtable respectively, the problem went away.

Has anybody had any expirience with problems regarding this?