Date:          Sun, Jul 20 2003
Groups:                comp.text.tex

>I have a long table which might need to be split across two pages. I
>have seen that there are many environments (supertabular, xtabular,
>longtable) but I could not find a way to hint the environment on where
>to put the page break.

>Is there a way to do it? Or how the packages decide where to put the
>page break ?

longtable, which uses tex's page breaking more-or-less direct by plugging into the output routine, implements \* (as a no-break newline) and also allows \linebreak and \nolinebreak at the start of a row.

i don't know about the others.

Robin Fairbairns