I have a long table in my (two column) Latex document. For that reason, I am using:
\usepackage{longtable}
so that I can split the table over two pages. This seemed to work, but it seems that the table is trying to fit into 1 column instead of spanning the two. I didn't have this problem when I used tabular.
I include a MWE below, but I have truncated the table to only have a few rows:
Any ideas would be great.
MWE:
\documentclass{emulateapj}
%% \documentclass[twocolumn]{aastex6}
\newcommand{\vdag}{(v)^\dagger}
\newcommand\aastex{AAS\TeX}
\newcommand\latex{La\TeX}
\usepackage{amsmath,mathtools,etoolbox}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{tabularx,colortbl}
\usepackage{adjustbox}\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{makecell}
\usepackage{stackengine}
\setstackEOL{\cr} %EOL is abbreviation for ``end of line.''
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\begin{longtable}{ccccccccccccc}
\hline
\hline
\thead{Name} && \thead{col2} && \thead{col3} && \thead{col4} && \thead{col5} && \thead{col6} \\
\hline
\rowcolor{gray!50}
ROW 1 && 1400 && 8.83 && 281.00 && 0.95 && 8.68 \\
ROW 2 && 2030 && 3.61 && 6.15 && 0.09 && 3.66 \\
ROW 3 && 1500 && 2.37 && 5.47 && 0.19 && 2.35 \\
ROW 4 && 820 && 1.44 && 4.59 && 0.09 && 1.43 \\
\rowcolor{gray!50}
ROW 5 && 820 && 5.46 && 34.23 && 2.56 && 3.87 \\
ROW 6 && 1500 && 5.16 && 12.00 && 1.12 && 4.86 \\
ROW 7 && 1400 && 4.93 && 22.66 && 1.84 && 3.96 \\
ROW 8 && 2030 && 2.82 && 14.01 && 1.29 && 2.25 \\
\hline
\caption{Caption.}
\label{var_table}
\end{longtable}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Use
supertabular
instead: