Table causes wrong page break

Question

The page break works on every page

But it does not work for page 11

When I remove the following table, everything works properly:

\begin{longtable}[c]{| c | c |}
 \caption{Determined damping factors in experiments in the air}\\
 \hline
 Run & Damping factor in 1/s \\
 \hline
 \endfirsthead
 \endhead
 \hline
 \endfoot
1 & 6,503 * \(10^{-3}\)\\
2 & 4,392 * \(10^{-3}\)\\
3 & 3,900 * \(10^{-3}\)\\
\end{longtable}

I have been searching for the issue a long time but could not find a solution.

Welcome to TeX.SX! Is there a reason for using longtable for such a small table? It should perfectly fit onto a single page, so longtable is not really needed here. — leandriis, Jan 16 '21 at 12:09
Entirely unrelated, but you might want to take a look at the siunitx package for numbers and their units. This package could simplify their input and significantly improve their output. — leandriis, Jan 16 '21 at 12:13
it is rather hard to understand your question in what way is the image that you post related to the fragment of code with a table? What does "does not work mean" in this context, what error did you get? How is this related to biblatex and overleaf tags you added? — David Carlisle, Jan 16 '21 at 12:17
oh I just noticed the over printed page number 11 in your image (you could have mentioned that:-) Is there a figure or table on that page? (you are only showing fragments of code and fragments of the page output so it is hard to guess. — David Carlisle, Jan 16 '21 at 12:45
Hello there! This is Tom from the Overleaf Support Team. Please note that I removed the [tag:overleaf] tag as this is not directly Overleaf-related. I hope you manage to solve the issue! — yo', Jan 16 '21 at 14:26
I dont know if it helps, but this is the code: https://pastebin.com/MQqAifkB — juliusphysics, Jan 16 '21 at 14:57
You seem to use longtable for all of your quite short tables. Why not use a simple tabular instead? — leandriis, Jan 16 '21 at 15:05
It is best not to use external links, I added your test file restricted to just the bad page break — David Carlisle, Jan 17 '21 at 00:32

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 17 '21 at 00:41

If I use a development version of longtable from the longtable4.14 branch of the latex3 github your example has better page breaks

The issue is essentially a duplicate of this one (amongst others)

longtabu and floats: wrong table breaks on pages with floats

I hope to get longtable updated at some point but there are some compatibility issues to address

lt 4.13

lt 4.14

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 19 '21 at 09:36

0

The problem was indeed the longtable. Replaced it by a tabluar table and everything works now properly.

answered Jan 19 '21 at 09:36

juliusphysics

11

This is more a comment than an answer. – Zarko Jan 19 '21 at 11:17

Table causes wrong page break

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