Re: [Latex2rtf-developers] File truncated on longtable

[Alan T L. <al...@al...>]

Hi Scott,

On 5/08/2010, at 9:52 AM, Scott Prahl wrote:

>
> On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Alan T Litchfield wrote:
>
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> On 5/08/2010, at 4:57 AM, Scott Prahl wrote:
>>
>>> Alan,
>>>
>>> The problem is with \caption{}.  This is not currently supported in
>>> a longtable
>>> environment.  Consequently, the presence of '\\' inside the caption
>>> causes problems.  The easiest fix is to replace '\\' with two
>>> linefeeds, but the
>>> RTF translation is pretty poor.
>>
>> Are you sure?
>
> Yes I am sure.  Re-reading my sentence above, I see that it can be  
> interpreted
> differently than I intended.  Sorry.  I meant to say that \\caption  
> is not
> currently supported in a longtable environment *IN LATEX2RTF*
>
> Sorry for the confusion.  I too read the longtable documentation  
> because
> I was unaware that \caption{} was even possible and saw the  
> equivalence
> to \multicolumn{n}{c}{}.  Unfortunately, adding code to support  
> \caption{}
> is not trivial.  It can be done, just not in a few minutes
>
> Sorry for the confusion
> Scott
>
>>


No problem :)

When I read it I realised too that the caption environment is quite  
different to the standard caption environment used in floats.

I guess it is not one of those environments that is used extensively,  
although I tend to use it a lot.

Cheers
Alan

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