I have a table with many rows, but only a single column. The column itself is a coefficient for an algorithm, hence just a number.
Currently, when typeset with the longtable
package it looks somewhat suboptimal. I wish to typeset it so that the table appears to have two columns with semantics similar to a two-column document layout (text goes top to bottom, left column to right column).
While I could try to emulate the effect manually (by having a two columned table) this would require an immense amount of manual adjustment every time the pagination is changed.
Is there a way of going about this?
Update
I've attached an example of what I mean (the image is taken from an old scientific paper). The data itself spans two pages (only the first of which is shown).
Best Answer
use the
tabbing
environment instead of alongtable
. It can be set in a\twocolumn
mode. The first line is killed after defining the tabstops. However, if you can set all lines in \ttfamily, then you need nothing, all will be fine. Alternatively put the first "C(..) = " in a box of a fixed width. The it is also formatted, because all digits are of the same width.