On Sun 07 Mar 04, 4:06 AM, Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:28:26PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > On Sun 07 Mar 04, 12:44 AM, Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > http://simons-clan.com/~msimons/tt/ > > > > > > (ps: if using the dvi you'll need to say xdvi -paper usr s.dvi) > > > > > > At the end of the first page you will see the \hline from the second table... > > > I would like that to not appear on the first page. > > > > > > At the end of the second page it chops a table in half (which I'd like > > > to avoid)... I've tried putting optional \pagebreak[3] but they are > > > ignored... I've also tried non-splitting row completes \\*, which > > > don't seem to help... I also tried adding comments to the end of every > > > line (for some reason I remember that as some gotcha from long time ago). > > > > > > If anyone has ideas how to fix, hints would be wonderful... > > > > i thought bill had this problem awhile ago. our archives stink, so you > > might just want to ask him. > > Well I don't know about our archives stinking... > grepmail on my 30 meg vox-tech archive takes a few seconds. well, i guess our archive are awesome. the search utility is *useless*. it doesn't even always print mail correctly. don't GET me started...
grepmail sounds interesting. from its name, i assume it knows mbox and can print out entire messages based on grep patterns. does it thread? > I think I've come to the conclusion that I'll tell latex to put a .5 > inch boarder around the page, pick a readable font size, figure out how > many lines fit in a given page, and have my perl stuff spit out long tables > of the correct length for a page... using pagebreak when needed. sure. if you feel up to it, it might be nice to post a summary of your task at hand and solution. prolly a lot of writing, but i'd sure be interested in reading it. > Also from reading over the archives, it seems to me that tex/latex is > very stagnate. latex2e was released sometime in 1994 and version 3 > project which started then... doesn't really have anything released. > > Sigh... true. the dev team is a little secretive. but here's what we can expect from latex 3: http://www.latex-project.org/guides/ltx3info/node4.html pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech