Re: [SL] Invoice with full details?

[Dr E. W L. <el...@li...>]

It is always helpful to read the archives, if they can be found.

I indeed use longtable and leave the page breaks to LaTeX.

greetings, el

Stroller wrote:
> On 20 Oct 2006, at 17:58, Angus Jordan wrote:
>>> From what I can read of the pagebreak code in the Form.pm package,  
>>> it is
>>> this code that is causing this white space.
>> It looks like it counts the amount of line items in an invoice, and  
>> then
>> makes breaks based on them.  It does not include the %notes%  
>> variable in
>> it's calculation.
> 
> Further to my previous posting to the list on this thread:
>      is it actually necessary for SL to count the number of line  
> items in an invoice?
> 
> It's kinda late here, so please just throw caffeine at me if I'm  
> waaaaay off base with this, but it seems to me that SL does this  
> because the "\begin{tabularx} ... <%foreach number%>  ... <%end number 
> %> \end{tabularx}" table (ie the list of items being invoiced) might  
> span multiple pages. The impression I get is that LaTeX can handle  
> this natively using the longtable package.
> 
> I think that if the main invoicable items table is ported to  
> longtable then <%itemnotes%> could be properly printed by SL. The  
> itemnotes could be as long as the user wishes and there is no need to  
> count them. More details will surely be in longtable.dvi, which I  
> find to be installed on my system; I'll have a look at this & try  
> using it tomorrow.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Stroller.
> 
> 
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