I am making a manual with LaTeX and at the end of the manual I want to insert a full-page blank table where I can have people sign to acknowledge that they have read the manual.
Currently I am doing this:
\section{Sign on sheet}
% NOTE: This is a very messy way of making a one page table.
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|+l|^X|^l|^X|}
\hline
\rowstyle{\bfseries}
Date & Name & Signature \\\hline\hline
1 January 2012 & John Citizen & XXXXXXXXX \\\hline
& & \\[0.4cm]\hline
& & \\[0.4cm]\hline
...
& & \\[0.4cm]\hline
\end{tabularx}
And I have to play around with the number of lines to make it fill the page. I use \\[0.4cm]
to make the rows a little larger to leave space for handwriting when the document is printed. Is there a better way to do this?
Best Answer
I suggest a different approach, not using a tabular structure; the
\linefill
command in the example below is a modification of the same command from the exam document class; it fills the vertical space of height given as its argument with the pattern of horizontal lines declared by\linefill
. You use a minipage with fixed heighth
for the header and then you symply use\linefill{\textheight-h}
to fill the page with the pattern; the vertical separation between lines can be changed by using the length\linefillheight
(initially set to1cm
):