Document Classes ⇒ longtable with strange page break just for head line

[nKf]

with the attached minimal .tex example longtable produces a pagebreak just for the head line and for the caption. see .pdf file for the result.

is it possible to tell longtable to place at least 3 rows to each page? if yes, how?
if there is a other or better package than longtable, please let me know.

greetings
stefan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Stefan,

perhaps the needspace package could be useful for you, for example:

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\usepackage{needspace}
...
\needspace{8\baselineskip}
\begin{longtable}[h]{|c|c|}
...

For the documentation look inside needspace.sty.

Stefan

[nKf]

Hi Stefan,

thanks for your answer. Unfortunately needspace does not help.

But I have found a solution with modifying longtable.sty. I must admit that I do not know exactly what I am doing. But the results look much better for me.

• \ifvoid\LT@foot\else
  \advance\vsize-3\ht\LT@foot
  \global\advance\@colroom-3\ht\LT@foot
  \dimen@\pagegoal\advance\dimen@-3\ht\LT@foot\pagegoal\dimen@
  \maxdepth\z@
  \fi

On the other hand longtable works better if the caption is at top of the table. So finally I decided to use this way instead of modifying longtable.sty.

Greetings
Stefan

Addition:
Ok, I found one other mistake in my example. Longtable places the caption like a simple row. So the caption has to be defined in \endfoot or \lastendfoot section. But this does not solve the problem. It seems, longtable does not take the size of lastendfoot into account while calculating the pagebreak.