Split justified text between two pages with longtabu

Question

I would ask how to split justified text between two different pages using longtabu. For now, if a single row exceed the space of the page, the entire text will be printed in the next page, leaving a big white space in the previous page.

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}

\usepackage{longtable,tabu}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\begin{longtabu}{X[2,j]X[16,j]}


A & \lipsum[1] \\

B & \lipsum[1] \\

C & \lipsum[1] \\

D & \lipsum[1] \\

\end{longtabu}


\end{document}

You could note how the text of C will be entirely printed on page 2, leaving a large white space on the bottom of page 1.

Thank you all.

If your real text is anything like this, then it should be set as a list not as a table, then list items naturally break over a page. — David Carlisle, Mar 05 '16 at 11:01
The problem with the list is that I can't obtain a fixed distance between the description and the text (i.e. a descriptor called "ABC" will generate more white space than one called "A"), and I can't manage how to obtain a proper justification like the table above — qwertxyz, Mar 05 '16 at 11:08
@Alessio not at all. list setting is parametrised in all sorts of ways, even a standard enumerate has indentation set so that something like i) is given the same space as xii) — David Carlisle, Mar 05 '16 at 11:40
@DavidCarlisle so please can you indicate me how to make a description list with fixed space between description and descriptor, and with descriptor justified like the table above? I'm searching but i can't find nothing that fit with my intended view. Thank you — qwertxyz, Mar 05 '16 at 11:54
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/203428/align-text-at-the-bottom-of-the-table-cell/203454#203454, http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/72701/how-to-create-columns-within-an-itemize-environment/72778#72778, http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/126910/problem-with-longtabu-package-not-doing-pagebreak/148911#148911, http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/135333/parameter-description-with-long-descriptions-and-long-lists-possibility-of-pa, http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/145234/longtable-with-items/203888#203888 — David Carlisle, Mar 05 '16 at 11:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

Thanks to @davidcarlisle, who posted this link to another question https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/107391/41963, I was able to find an excellent solution to my problem, creating a custom list enviromnment as follows:

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}

\usepackage{longtable,tabu}

\usepackage{lipsum}


\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}


\newenvironment{plist}{%
\list{}{\labelwidth0pt
\def\makelabel##1{\makebox[2cm][l]{##1}}%
\itemsep 10pt
\advance\leftmargin1.2cm
\itemindent-2cm
}}
{\endlist}

\newenvironment{plist2}{%
\list{}{\labelwidth0pt
\def\makelabel##1{\makebox[1cm][l]{##1}}%
\itemsep 10pt
\advance\leftmargin.2cm
\itemindent-1cm
}}
{\endlist}

\begin{document}

\begin{plist}

\item[a] \lipsum[27]

\item[abc] \lipsum[27]

\item[abcdef] \lipsum[27]

\begin{plist2}

\item[abc] \lipsum[30]

\item[a] \lipsum[30]

\end{plist2}

\item[abcdefghi] \lipsum[27]

\end{plist}

\end{document}

This custom list environment works even with nested sublist (by changing the parameters in the preamble) and correctly splits the justified paragraph between two pages.

Split justified text between two pages with longtabu

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