long table (not in one column mode?)

[Chris Frost]

I'm trying to compile a document with the example code for longtable but I
get an error saying that longtable is not in 1-column mode and to see the
documentation (which doesn't seem to mention this error). The full error
message beign:
! Package longtable Error: longtable not in 1-column mode.

See the longtable package documentation for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...

l.152 \begin{longtable}
{@{*}r||p{1in}@{*}}

What might I be doing wrong? (Fwiw, longtable 4.09.)

thanks again!
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[David Carlisle]

> What might I be doing wrong? (Fwiw, longtable 4.09.)

You are trying to start longtable in the scope of [twocolumn] or
\twocolumn or \begin{multicols}

David

[Robin Fairbairns]

i think what he wanted to know was that the error message was issued
because this is an error situation...

longtable.dtx isn't terribly forthcoming on this point.
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge

[Chris Frost]

Robin Fairbairns <r...@betsy.cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> David Carlisle <da...@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>> What might I be doing wrong? (Fwiw, longtable 4.09.)
>>
>>You are trying to start longtable in the scope of [twocolumn] or
>>\twocolumn or \begin{multicols}

I am in two column mode, great! Is there a way to have tables that are of
multiple page lengths while using more than one column on the page though?

> i think what he wanted to know was that the error message was issued
> because this is an error situation...

? (If you happen to be saying what I think you're saying (I am tired...),
I did know it was an error was found by latex because there was an error,
I just didn't know what the erorr was.)

thanks for the help,

[David Carlisle]

> I am in two column mode, great! Is there a way to have tables that are of
> multiple page lengths while using more than one column on the page though?

longtable would need some reasonably large scale inetrnal changes to
work in two column, that's why I added the error message so that it gave
(what I hoped was) a more informative error message rather than just
dying unexpectedly.

I think possibly supertabular package does work in two columns.

David