My longtable exceeds the page length. Any help would be highly appreciated.
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside]{report}
\usepackage{fontenc}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{covington}
\usepackage{pslatex}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\newcolumntype{R}{>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}p{2cm}}
\usepackage{tocvsec2}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{1.96cm}
\setlength{\topmargin}{3.5 cm}
\setlength{\headheight}{1.36cm}
\setlength{\headsep}{1.00cm}
\setlength{\textheight}{20.84cm}
\setlength{\textwidth}{14.5cm}
\setlength{\marginparsep}{1mm}
\setlength{\marginparwidth}{3cm}
\setlength{\footskip}{2.36cm}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[bottom,norule]{footmisc}
\usepackage[tableposition=t]{caption}
\usepackage[danish,english]{babel}
\usepackage{natbib}
\bibpunct{(}{)}{,}{a}{}{,}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\geometry{top=4cm, bottom=3.5cm, left=5cm, right=3.5cm}
\footskip = 30pt
\renewcommand{\bibname}{References}
\usepackage[toc,page]{appendix}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{bookmark}
\usepackage[bitstream-charter]{mathdesign}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{lscape}
\begin{document}
\newpage
\chapter{Data Collection}
\section{California Cities Selected and Represented in the Present Study}
\subsection{Cities Selection Method}
Northern California includes forty-eight counties, thirty-eight of which are represented in this study (see following sections for a complete list of included counties).
Alpine County, Colusa County, Inyo County, Mariposa County, Modoc County, Mono County, Napa County, Plumas County, Sierra County, and Sutter County are not represented in this study.
In fact, we could not find online newspapers based in those counties that were suitable for the present research.
\newpage
\subsection{The North Coast Region}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\rule{4.88in}{4in}\caption{Map of the North Coast Region.\label{fig:North Coast Region}}
\end{figure}
The North Coast of California is a rural area that stretches on the Pacific coast from San Francisco Bay north to the Oregon border and includes Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, and Mendocino counties. Within the region there is no city with a population of over 100,000.
According to Bright (1971), in 1870 the population of the North Coast region included eleven percent of immigrants from New York, nine percent from Missouri; three percent from Maine; and two percent from Ohio (see Appendix for details).
%(White \%, Black or African American \%, Hispanic or Latino \%, Asian \%, Other \%). The median age of the population in Del Norte County is - years old.
\begin{longtable}{l r l r r}
\caption{Description of the Counties in the The North Coast Region\label{Description of the Counties in the The North Coast Region}}\\
\toprule
\textsc{County}&\textsc{Founded}&\textsc{Seat}&\textsc{Area (sqm)}&\textsc{Pop 2010}\\
\midrule
\endfirsthead
\caption[]{(continued)}\\
\toprule
\textsc{County}&\textsc{Founded}&\textsc{Seat}&\textsc{Area (sqm)}&\textsc{Pop 2010}\\
\midrule
\endhead
\bottomrule
\endlastfoot
Del Norte&1857&Crescent City&1,008&7,643\\
Humboldt&1853&Eureka&3,573&27,191\\
Lake&1861&Lakeport&1,258&4,753\\
Mendocino&1850&Ukiah&3,509&16,075\\
Trinity&1850&Weaverville&3,179&3,600\\
\end{longtable}
\begin{longtable}{l l l}
\caption{Coverage for The North Coast Region\label{Coverage for The North Coast Region}}\\
\toprule
\textsc{County Name}&\textsc{City}&\textsc{Online Newspaper}\\
\midrule
\endfirsthead
\caption[]{(continued)}\\
\toprule
\textsc{County Name}&\textsc{City}&\textsc{Online Newspaper}\\
\toprule
\endhead
\bottomrule
\endlastfoot
Del Norte&Crescent City&Daily Triplicate\\
Humboldt&Eureka&Eureka Times-Standard\\
Lake&Lakeport&Lake County News\\
Mendocino&Ukiah&Ukiah Daily Journal\\
&Willits&Willits News\\
Trinity&Weaverville&Trinity Journal\\
\end{longtable}
\end{document}
Best Answer
This answer is posted in response to some questions the OP posted to earlier comments. The main point of this posting is to demonstrate that it's possible to create the exact same layout of a "short" table, i.e., one that fits on a single page, using either the
longtableenvironment or thetable/tabularenvironments.As you compare the differences in code, you'll notice that the each type has some advantages and some disadvantages in terms of "overhead" that's needed to get it going. For instance, a
longtablerequires you to be diligent about providing formats for the table's headers and footers for both the first (last) page and for the remaining pages. Of course, you only need to provide this information once for atabularenvironment. However, for atabularenvironment you need to remember to provide the\centeringinstruction in case you want the material centered, and you need to remember to provide a[h]placement specifier if you want to override LaTeX's float placement algorithm. In contrast, alongtableenvironment will always try to start "right here", i.e., a[h]specifier is built in.In the end, I don't think differences in table-creating overhead should determine whether you use one form or the other. Rather, assuming the table fits on a single page, you should decide whether the material of the table should be allowed to be broken across pages or not. If it's supposed to be kept together, you should not use a
longtableenvironment in any case.