Balancing Long Table Inside Multicol In LaTeX
Answer : If you don't want longtable to add headers and footers to the table at the same time that multicol is balancing where to make the break (which would require that frank and I cooperate:-) then multicol will balance the output from longtable if you first trick longtable into thinking that it isn't in multicol at all. I added some rules, just to show that latex tabular features then work, which is harder to do with a bare \halign . \documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{article} \usepackage[margin=3cm]{geometry} \usepackage{longtable} \usepackage{multicol} \newsavebox\ltmcbox \def\shortlipsum{\par Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna. Donec vehicula augue eu neque.\par} \newcounter{entryno} \setcounter{entryno}{1} \def\tabline{Test & \the\value{entryno} & Description\addt...