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\documentclass[12pt]{report}

\usepackage{amsmath,enumerate}
\usepackage[top=1cm,bottom=1.5cm,left=1cm,right=1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\usepackage{longtable,tabu} % allow page break

\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex


%------------------------------------------------------------------
% define my own stuff %%
%------------------------------------------------------------------
\newcommand{\key}[1]{ #1 \index{#1} }
%------------------------------------------------------------------
\newenvironment{reflog}[5]
{
    \cleardoublepage
    \begin{center}
        \textbf{ \large \sffamily Reflective Log -- #1} \\[2ex]
    \begin{longtabu}{ m{0.9\textwidth} }
        \toprule \\
            { \sffamily Nature of activity: } \\[2ex]
                #3 \\[2ex]
            \hline \\
            { \sffamily What struck me as important or significant:} \\[2ex]
                #4 \\[2ex]
            \hline \\
            { \sffamily Implications for my own teaching:} \\[2ex]
                #5 \\[2ex]
            \hline \\
            { \sffamily Standards this provides evidence for:} \\[2ex]
                #2 \\[2ex]
        \bottomrule
    \end{longtabu}
    \end{center}
}%
%------------------------------------------------------------------

\newenvironment{reflognew}[5]
{
    \cleardoublepage
    \begin{center}
        \textbf{ \large \sffamily Reflective Log -- #1} \\[2ex]
    \begin{longtable}{ m{0.9\textwidth} }
        \toprule \\
            { \sffamily Nature of activity: } \\[2ex]
                #3 \\[2ex]
            \hline \\
            { \sffamily What struck me as important or significant:} \\[2ex]
                #4 \\[2ex]
            \hline \\
            { \sffamily Implications for my own teaching:} \\[2ex]
                #5 \\[2ex]
            \hline \\
            { \sffamily Standards this provides evidence for:} \\[2ex]
                #2 \\[2ex]
        \bottomrule
    \end{longtable}
    \end{center}
}%
%------------------------------------------------------------------
% BEGIN Document %

\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}

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I have tried both longtable and longtabu, but neither is satisfactory. longtabu does better than longtable, but it still have a big gap.

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Chen Stats Yu
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  • I'd urge you *not* to use longtabu or tabu. The author has promised a new version which with no support for backwards compatibility i.e. it will break many existing documents. Unless you do not need your code to compile in the future, this is probably not what you want. – cfr Jul 05 '15 at 15:45
  • you can only break tables between rows, not in the middle of a m column which is a parbox. However if this reflects your real example there is only one column, so there is no need to have any table code at all, you could just have a sequence of paragraphs which could then break naturally. – David Carlisle Jul 05 '15 at 15:49
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    Although you are defining new environments, you are not using them as environments. When you say \newenvironment{<env>}{<begin>}{<end>}, you create an environment which you then use like this: \begin{<env>} bunch of stuff \end{<env>}. In your case the syntax would be \begin{<env>}{<1>}{<2>}...{<5>} bunch of stuff \end{<env>}. If what you really want is a command, use \newcommand.... See my answer on this for further details. – cfr Jul 05 '15 at 15:49

1 Answers1

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This uses the titlesec package to build on David's suggestion and converts the use of \newenvironment to \newcommand since you want a command rather than an environment judging by the syntax you wish to use.

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}[block]{\centering\bfseries\sffamily\large}{\thesection}{0pt}{}{}
\titleformat{\paragraph}[hang]{\sffamily}{\theparagraph}{0pt}{\hrule}{}
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{*1.5}{*2}
\titlespacing*{\paragraph}{0pt}{*2}{*2}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}

\newcommand{\key}[1]{#1}
\newcommand{\reflog}[5]{%
  \cleardoublepage
  \section{Reflective Log -- #1}
  \paragraph{Nature of activity}
  #3
  \paragraph{What struck me as important or significant}
  #4
  \paragraph{Implications for my own teaching}
  #5
  \paragraph{Standards this provides evidence for}
  #2
  \vskip 2ex plus .3ex minus .06ex
  \hrule
}

% BEGIN Document %

\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}

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long 'table' using sectioning commands

cfr
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