Am 11.01.2011 um 01:03 schrieb Felix Ingram:
Hello all,
I've been playing with the various table environments but I thought I'd seek advice as to which would be the best for my requirements.
I need to be able to do the following:
- Repeating header row with coloured background and text (I can get this working with TABLE but not tabulate).
Tabulate supports background color for cells, Hans posted a example last november. Headers and footers are supported too, look for \starttabulatehead and \starttabulatetail.
- Multi-page tables (TABLE and tabulate are fine with these). - Insert images in a cell (TABLE seems to handle this better than tabulate).
Indeed.
- Have rows that will split across pages - we will have large pieces of text and images which will end up being taller than the page. (tabulates paragraph support is the right sort of thing)
Correct, tabulate only feature.
- Start next row on current page.
???
- Include other tables, lists etc in a cell (this is a "nice to have" rather than a "must have")
TABLE
The reason I need these various things is because Word acts this way and I need to produce something similar (until we can argue for a format change).
Use tabulate for text centric tables and TABLE for tables with a strict layout and figures and other content (because you can set the cells width and height).
At the moment I'm leaning towards tabulate but I'm having issues with images and the headers. I'm using Mk IV (bonus question: as a newbie, should I just start with IV and ignore II? Or is II better for any particular reason?).
Use MkIV, the differences between both are not so big but for me there are many minor things why i prefer MkIV over MkII. Wolfgang