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I need a longtable with only two columns. I saw this topic Two column list with and I managed to convert into longtable.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{longtable}{|p{0.45\textwidth}|p{0.45\textwidth}|}
\caption{ex} \\
\hline
1. One one one
&
3. One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one \\
2. One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one
&
4. One one one One one one\\
\hline
\end{longtable}
\end{document}

The problem is that between point 1 and 2 there is a huge space. I want that the points do not have extra space between them. It needs to be a longtable! Thanks.

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Jack Stage
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  • Have a look at your cells - you've created a 2x2-table. Put your paragraphs in the right order and just use one & between the second and third. – Hackbard_C Sep 07 '14 at 12:38
  • Based on rows in second column you get extra page. That is why Hackbard has suggested you to order your data – murugan Sep 07 '14 at 13:04
  • saying that you do not want a space there is the same as saying that you do not want a tabular layout. Why do you say that you want to use longtable? – David Carlisle Sep 07 '14 at 14:28
  • It must be in a table format because of the caption, and have that aspect. I mentioned longtable because the information that will be on the longtable will exceed the size of the page. – Jack Stage Sep 07 '14 at 14:43
  • @Hackbard_C so if the table exceeds the size of the page will not move to the next page? I do not want that. – Jack Stage Sep 07 '14 at 14:45
  • The caption is totally irrelevant to the the layout used for the data, I show an (unformatted) caption in my answer, if you want that caption formatted like a table caption use \captionof{table}{a caption} using the caption or capt-of packages. – David Carlisle Sep 07 '14 at 14:51
  • longtable will split over a page, but between rows, it does not split individual cells. – David Carlisle Sep 07 '14 at 14:52

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A tabular alignment implies that the data is positioned into rectangular blocks, hence the space that you show. You have a list not a table:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{capt-of}
\begin{document}


\twocolumn[\captionof{table}{A caption}]
\begin{enumerate}

\item One one one
\item  One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one
\newpage
\item
One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one 

\item One one one One one one
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
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  • Like I said, I need in a table environment. – Jack Stage Sep 07 '14 at 14:46
  • @JackStage If you need a table layout then you need to arrange the data into rectangular cells which means that you need the space that you show in your image. If you do not want that then you need to say what you mean by "need a table" (I can't guess, sorry) – David Carlisle Sep 07 '14 at 14:49
  • @JackStage I added some formatting to the caption so it will appear in list of tables, etc – David Carlisle Sep 07 '14 at 14:56
  • Ok, I saw your comment about the caption. That was one reason. The other reason is to keep the same look as I presented in the picture, it is possible? – Jack Stage Sep 07 '14 at 14:57
  • @JackStage The look you show is of a tabular layout which necessarily implies that the data is arranged in table rows I honestly can't guess how you want a table to look that does not have the space you show (imagine putting a \hline after each \\ to make it more obvious what is happening.) So I can't see any way to change this answer (but others may answer later of course) – David Carlisle Sep 07 '14 at 15:05
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You need to use a list/enumerate to avoid the spacing. However you can still have a caption by putting the list into a table or figure float.

I created a minipage within which the two-column environment and list was placed.

\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\begin{minipage}[t]{1\columnwidth}%
\begin{multicols}{2}
\begin{enumerate}
\item One one one
\item One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one
one One one one One one one One one one \newpage{}
\item One one one One one one One one one One one one One one one One one
one One one one One one one One one one
\item One one one One one one \end{enumerate}
\end{multicols}
%
\end{minipage}

\protect\caption{some caption}


\end{table}

\end{document}

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