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From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Long table, landscape or sideways, LaTeX PDF
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:20:19 -0700
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To: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
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Hi Alan,

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have to apologize first, as I had this working at home, to some extent.
> Not well.=A0 I have to submit a printout of =A0 grades, today, if possibl=
e, and
> I've been struggling with it.=A0=A0 Can't find the cookbook formula!=A0=
=A0 (I would
> like to use the \footnotesize feature also).=A0 So far I've had to go thr=
ough
> each table, deleting long words, and deleting some fields.=A0 WOuld rathe=
r
> have some way to do it as is.
>
> How to do this?=A0 The table should break over two pages.=A0 It would see=
m to me
> that some combination of sidewaystable and longtable might do it.
>

As Nick suggests, an #+ATTR_LaTeX: line with longtable and wrapping
your table in

\usepackage{lscape}

#+LATEX: \begin{landscape}
...
#+LATEX: \end{landscape}

should do the trick.

For the use of \footnotesize, you can look at the following Worg page:
<http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#sec-1_6_1>

>
> Alan Davis
>

Hope this helps.

--=20
Suvayu

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