In my dissertation, I have a glossary that explains some abbreviations I use. I put this in a table to make it look nicer. However, LaTeX does not break lines at the end of the page.
I know that I could force a line break at any point in the table, but it is a long table (much work!) and manual line breaks make the text look jagged and ugly. Is there a nice way to either have a nice-looking glossary or make LaTeX break lines automatically in a table?
...if LaTeX wouldn't do these things every so often I would really love it. The way it is, I constantly switch between affection and anger...
Why are you using a table for your glossary? Are you aware of the glossaries package? It lets you create beautiful glossaries with a minimum effort.
If you still want to use a table, I suggest you to use the tabularx , it defines the X
column type which creates columns of adjustable width with word wrapping.
For example:
\usepackage{tabularx}
...
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{ |l|X| }
\hline
word1 & long definition... \\
\hline
word2 & long definition... \\
\hline
\end{tabularx}
look at the longtable
package. it handles pages breaks automatically. http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/longtable.pdf
try:
\begin{tabular}{|p{3cm}|p{4cm}|p{4cm}|}
Long text here & Long text here & Long text here \\
\end{tabular}
This solution worked in my case:
\begin{tabular}{ll}
one line& \parbox[t]{5cm}{another\\column}\\
second line here& and here
\end{tabular}
(Found on the answer to a similar question on TeX Stack Exchange .)
Insert after each \\\\
(or \\cr
) the following:
\noalign{\penalty -100 }
Example:
\def\penlt{\noalign{\penalty-100 }}
\halign{&\hfil\ (#)\ \hfil\cr
1&2&3\cr \penlt
1&2&3\cr \penlt
1&2&3\cr \penlt
1&2&3\cr \penlt
1&2&3\cr \penlt
1&2&3\cr \penlt
1&2&3\cr \penlt
1&2&3\cr \penlt
1&2&3\cr \penlt
1&2&3\cr \penlt
1&2&3\cr \penlt
}
If you want to use the rule after each line then write
\def\penlt{\noalign{\hrule \penalty-100 \hrule height -.4pt \hrule}}
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