Long table in four-column document

Question

I am working on a four-column document using the multicol package and want to insert a two-column table that spans upon multiple multicols* columns (and multiple pages), doing column and page breaks by itself. I did a mockup in Excel of how I'd like it to look like:

However, I couldn't achieve that with any tabular, longtable, supertabular or xtabular. I think an xtabular could work, but it does a page break every time it reaches the end of a column (see MWE), while I want it to automatically do a column break and fill the whole page before going to a new page.

MWE of what I achieved so far, using the xtab package:

\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{scrbook}
\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{xtab}
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{4} %Beginning of the four-column environment
    \begin{xtabular}{rl} %Beginning of the two-column xtabular
        1 & Montag \
        2 & Dienstag \
        3 & Mittwoch \
        4 & Donnerstag \
        5 & Freitag \
        6 & Samstag \
        7 & Sonntag \
        8 & Montag \
        9 & Dienstag \
        10 & Mittwoch \
        11 & Donnerstag \
        12 & Freitag \
        13 & Samstag \
        14 & Sonntag \
        15 & Montag \
        16 & Dienstag \
        17 & Mittwoch \
        18 & Donnerstag \
        19 & Freitag \
        20 & Samstag \
        21 & Sonntag \
        22 & Montag \
        23 & Dienstag \
        24 & Mittwoch \
        25 & Donnerstag \
        26 & Freitag \
        27 & Samstag \
        28 & Sonntag \
        29 & Montag \
        30 & Dienstag \
        31 & Mittwoch \
        32 & Donnerstag \
        33 & Freitag \
        34 & Samstag \
        35 & Sonntag \
        36 & Montag \
        37 & Dienstag \
        38 & Mittwoch \
        39 & Donnerstag \
        40 & Freitag \
        41 & Samstag \
        42 & Sonntag \
        43 & Montag \
        44 & Dienstag \
        45 & Mittwoch \
        46 & Donnerstag \
        47 & Freitag \
        48 & Samstag \
        49 & Sonntag \
        50 & Montag \
        51 & Dienstag \
        52 & Mittwoch \
    \end{xtabular}
\end{multicols}
\end{document}

Compiled MWE:

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Answer 1

I would use a list here. I used itemize of course if your first column really is a counter in your real document it can be simplified more and use enumerate

I used multicolumn not multicolumn* as there was not enough text to fill 4 unbalanced columns in this example.

\documentclass[12pt,twoside]{scrbook}
% no \usepackage{ucs}
% no \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{multicol}
%\usepackage{xtab}
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{4} %Beginning of the four-column environment
\begin{itemize}
\item[1] Montag
\item[2] Dienstag
\item[3] Mittwoch
\item[4] Donnerstag
\item[5] Freitag
\item[6] Samstag
\item[7] Sonntag
\item[8] Montag
\item[9] Dienstag
\item[10] Mittwoch
\item[11] Donnerstag
\item[12] Freitag
\item[13] Samstag
\item[14] Sonntag
\item[15] Montag
\item[16] Dienstag
\item[17] Mittwoch
\item[18] Donnerstag
\item[19] Freitag
\item[20] Samstag
\item[21] Sonntag
\item[22] Montag
\item[23] Dienstag
\item[24] Mittwoch
\item[25] Donnerstag
\item[26] Freitag
\item[27] Samstag
\item[28] Sonntag
\item[29] Montag
\item[30] Dienstag
\item[31] Mittwoch
\item[32] Donnerstag
\item[33] Freitag
\item[34] Samstag
\item[35] Sonntag
\item[36] Montag
\item[37] Dienstag
\item[38] Mittwoch
\item[39] Donnerstag
\item[40] Freitag
\item[41] Samstag
\item[42] Sonntag
\item[43] Montag
\item[44] Dienstag
\item[45] Mittwoch
\item[46] Donnerstag
\item[47] Freitag
\item[48] Samstag
\item[49] Sonntag
\item[50] Montag
\item[51] Dienstag
\item[52] Mittwoch
\end{itemize}
\end{multicols}
\end{document}