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1. Latex longtable format

   Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> — 2013-01-13T00:09:31Z

   I have received several earnest requests over the years for LaTeX
   'longtable' output, and I have just implemented it based on a sample
   LaTeX longtable output file.
   
   I have called it 'latex-longtable' and implemented all the behaviors of
   ordinary latex mode.   One feature is that in latex-longtable mode,
   'tableattr' allows control over the column widths --- that seemed to be
   very important to the users.  One requested change I made to the
   ordinary latex output was to suppress the line under the table title if
   border = 0 (default is border = 1).
   
   Patch and sample output attached.  I would like to apply this for PG
   9.3.
   
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2. Re: Latex longtable format

   Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> — 2013-01-17T16:44:55Z

   On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 07:09:31PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
   > I have received several earnest requests over the years for LaTeX
   > 'longtable' output, and I have just implemented it based on a sample
   > LaTeX longtable output file.
   > 
   > I have called it 'latex-longtable' and implemented all the behaviors of
   > ordinary latex mode.   One feature is that in latex-longtable mode,
   > 'tableattr' allows control over the column widths --- that seemed to be
   > very important to the users.  One requested change I made to the
   > ordinary latex output was to suppress the line under the table title if
   > border = 0 (default is border = 1).
   > 
   > Patch and sample output attached.  I would like to apply this for PG
   > 9.3.
   
   Modified patch applied.  I didn't need to modify our existing 'latex'
   output format, except to add border=3 support.  It was tempting to
   suggest renaming our 'latex' output format to 'latex-tabular', because
   that is what it uses, but 'tabular' is a package included by default in
   Latex, while 'longtable' requires two additional packages to be
   specified, so I resisted suggesting it.  I did document that 'latex'
   uses 'tabular'.
   
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     Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
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