Is it possible to use tabularx inside a longtable environment?

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Is it possible to use tabularx inside a longtable environment?

If not, is there any way I can get the "X" funcionality of tabularx with the option of long tables ---In order for me to be able to break them in two pages? Using longtabu is not an option, as stated by @jon here:

I would recommend staying away from tabu as the package author is still fiddling with things and explicitly promised that there would not be backwards compatibility. See here for the discussion.

UPDATE:

Using the package ltxtable suggested by @Alan Munn (Writeen by @David Carlisle) I have the current Minimal Non-Working Example

Main File:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{ltxtable}

\begin{document}
Hello.

\LTXtable{\textwidth}{VersionOne}

\end{document}

Where the file VersionOne goes:

\begin{longtable}{XX}
\caption{A very long table}\\
WHO                 & \hspace{5mm} World Health Organization\\[1mm]
GDP                 & \hspace{5mm} Gross Domestic Product\\[1mm]
PPP                 & \hspace{5mm} Purchasing Power Parities\\[1mm]
\label{tab:LongtableOne}
\end{longtable}

When I try to run this code, I get a Emergency Stop and a fatal error. Am I writing this correctly?

There is the ltxtable package by David Carlisle which combines the capabilities of both. — Alan Munn, Apr 02 '13 at 04:54
@AlanMunn, Could you please give an example? The documentation (ftp://ftp.di.uminho.pt/pub/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/carlisle/ltxtable.pdf) is not very explicative, and I wasn't able to run anything — Mario S. E., Apr 02 '13 at 15:26
Just put your longtable in a separate file and include it with \LTXtable{\textwidth}{name-of-file-with-table} — David Carlisle, Apr 02 '13 at 15:49
And what about the Xs? Should I also write a tabularx environment? — Mario S. E., Apr 02 '13 at 16:10
It continues to give me an error. I'm going to write a MWE in the question — Mario S. E., Apr 02 '13 at 17:11
After caption you need a line break. \caption{A very long table}\\ This is the special behaviour of longtable — Marco Daniel, Apr 02 '13 at 17:27
Fixed it, and although I don't get any errors, now I can't see the table — Mario S. E., Apr 02 '13 at 17:49

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 06 '13 at 22:28

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As stated in the comments for ltxtable the longtable has to be in a separate file. Processing the updated example (twice) with pdflatex produces

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answered Jul 06 '13 at 22:28

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 24 '21 at 01:37

The new LaTeX3 package tabularray is an alternative to the outdated tabu package. You can use X columns in longtblr environment:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\UseTblrLibrary{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\begin{longtblr}[
  caption = {A very long table},
  label = {tab:LongtableOne},
]{X[1]X[2]}
\toprule
  WHO & World Health Organization \
  GDP & Gross Domestic Product    \
  PPP & Purchasing Power Parities \
\bottomrule
\end{longtblr}
\end{document}

Is it possible to use tabularx inside a longtable environment?

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