How to I create double column, continuous table in a 2 column document?

Question

I tried longtable, it works but gives error. I think longtable do not work on 2 column document. I tried supertabular but it tries to create single column table. Here is my longtable example below.

\begin{center}
\begin{longtable}{|c|c|c|c|c|}
\caption{ETD observers whose light curves were used in this study.} 
\label{tab:ETDobs} \\
\hline {\textbf{System}} & {\textbf{ETD Number}} & {\textbf{Filter}} & {\textbf{Observer}} & {\textbf{TRESCA Protocol Number}} \ \hline
\endfirsthead
\multicolumn{5}{c}%
{{\bfseries \tablename\ \thetable{} -- continued from previous page}} \
\hline {\textbf{System}} & {\textbf{Filter}} & {\textbf{ETD Number}} & {\textbf{Observer}} & {\textbf{TRESCA Protocol Number}} \ \hline
\endhead
\hline \multicolumn{5}{|r|}{{Continued on next page}} \ \hline
\endfoot
\hline \hline
\endlastfoot
GJ 1214 & ETD44 & Clear & Thomas Sauer & 1278597072  \ 
GJ 1214 & ETD48 & I & Johannes Ohlert & 1281369862  \ 
GJ 1214 & ETD71 & Clear & ESSEIVA Nicolas & 1368129605  \ 
GJ 1214 & ETD86 & Clear & Fran Campos & 1436715932  \ 
GJ 1214 & ETD97 & I & Marc Bretton & 1531068175  \ 
GJ 1214 & ETD105 & Clear & Paul Benni & 1616843398  \ 
HAT-P-1 & ETD37 & R & Ramon Naves & 1378191469  \ 
HAT-P-1 & ETD44 & V & Marc Bretton & 1506648757  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD9 & Clear & Luboš Brát & 1252467945  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD18 & Clear & Samuel Durrance, Stacy Irwin & 1292271351  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD21 & Clear & Luboš Brát & 1317438434  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD36 & R & Mark Salisbury & 1350197834  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD39 & Clear & Alfonso Carreno & 1354463447  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD44 & Clear & Paul Benni & 1380843090  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD71 & R & Ferran Grau Horta & 1419237611  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD85 & Clear & David Molina & 1476120518  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD87 & R &  Wonseok Kang & 1484834873  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD88 & R &  Wonseok Kang & 1484831725  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD99 & V & Yves Jongen & 1544871912  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD100 & Clear & Bruno Fontaine & 1546017209  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD101 & Clear &  Yves Jongen & 1567668774  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD102 & R &  Veli-Pekka Hentunen & 1569003995  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD103 & V & Yves Jongen & 1569911364  \ 
HAT-P-10 & ETD113 & Clear & Matthieu BACHSCHMIDT & 1638791203  \ 
HAT-P-13 & ETD39 & R & Ramon Naves & 1296839849  \ 
HAT-P-13 & ETD82 & Clear & Marc Bretton & 1446972948  \ 
HAT-P-13 & ETD100 & Clear & Manfred Raetz & 1579296693  \ 
HAT-P-13 & ETD104 & R & Manfred Raetz & 1585809439  \ 
HAT-P-13 & ETD107 & R & Yves Jongen & 1612792652  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD10 & R & Ruth ODougherty Sanchez & 1291563452  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD13 & Clear & Stan Shadick & 1318731754  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD15 & Clear & Jaroslav Trnka & 1317463132  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD16 & R & Thomas Sauer & 1317639008  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD2 & Clear & Jaroslav Trnka & 1278846773  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD23 & I & Stan Shadick & 1349233966  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD27 & R & Petri Kehusmaa, Caisey Harlingten & 1351258657  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD31 & R & Mark Salisbury & 1378590453  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD36 & Clear & Stan Shadick & 1383606249  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD37 & Clear & Paul Benni & 1383673356  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD38 & Clear & Anthony Ayiomamitis & 1383875650  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD39 & R & Francesco Scaggiante, Danilo Zardin & 1386236706  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD45 & Clear & Luca Rizzuti & 1440519027  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD46 & Clear & David Molina & 1446965044  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD47 & R & Fran Campos & 1448107877  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD5 & Clear & Martin Vrašťák & 1285498403  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD57 & R & Ramon Naves & 1473584609  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD59 & Clear & Trnka J. & 1477940875  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD6 & Clear & J. Világi, Š. Gajdoš & 1288224520  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD60 & Clear & David Molina & 1479143435  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD61 & I & Kevin B. Alton & 1507651821  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD63 & R & Veli-Pekka Hentunen & 1534770239  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD64 & Clear & Anael Wunsche & 1537205125  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD65 & R & JOSEP GAITAN & 1545555524  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD69 & V & Yves Jongen & 1567852468  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD70 & R & Francesco Scaggiante, Danilo Zardin & 1569339710  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD70 & R & Marco Fiaschi & 1569339710  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD7 & I & Stan Shadick & 1286159180  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD72 & V & Mario Morales & 1571209785  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD73 & V & Truman State Observer & 1583901308  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD76 & Clear & Anael Wunsche & 1596031262  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD78 & R & Yves Jongen & 1599988642  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD79 & R & Yves Jongen & 1602144863  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD80 & V & Snaevarr Gudmundsson & 1605914982  \ 
HAT-P-16 & ETD9 & Clear & Stan Shadick & 1288134822  \ 
HAT-P-22 & ETD53 & B & Yves Jongen & 1550908562  \ 
HAT-P-22 & ETD55 & R & JOSEP GAITAN & 1552034513  \ 
HAT-P-22 & ETD68 & R & Manfred Raetz & 1586181879  \ 
HAT-P-22 & ETD78 & I & Manfred Raetz & 1614798234  \ 
HAT-P-22 & ETD79 & Clear & Matthieu BACHSCHMIDT & 1617521673  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD14 & Clear & Stan Shadick & 1331321038  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD15 & I & Stan Shadick & 1333050479  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD16 & Clear & Juanjo Gonzalez & 1329671594  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD18 & R & Stan Shadick & 1331919572  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD22 & Clear & Stan Shadick & 1358100549  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD26 & I & Giuseppe Marino & 1392576172  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD30 & R & ANDRE Christophe, CLEMENT Jacques & 1420878866  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD30 & R & NOUGAYREDE Jean-Philippe & 1420878866  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD32 & R & Marc Bretton & 1425771388  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD33 & Clear & Martin Zibar & 1425774283  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD39 & R & Francesco Scaggiante, Danilo Zardin & 1516875191  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD41 & Clear & Marc Bretton & 1519263504  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD47 & V & Yves Jongen & 1580746869  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD51 & Clear & Marc Bretton & 1586081207  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD52 & R & Yves Jongen & 1607422166  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD53 & R & Jean-Claude MARIO & 1607859317  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD55 & R & Yves Jongen & 1612549479  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD56 & R & Yves Jongen & 1612791934  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD58 & R &  JOSEP GAITAN & 1613042887  \ 
HAT-P-30 & ETD59 & R & Anael Wunsche & 1613037601  \ 
\end{longtable}
\end{center}

Note that teh center env does nothing here. Additionally, please always provide a full minimal example that others can copy and test as is. — daleif, Dec 14 '23 at 10:24
Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking. — Community, Dec 14 '23 at 10:35
supertabular should work, but for either you should provide a small complete document not just a fragment — David Carlisle, Dec 14 '23 at 10:40
When i use supertabular, it creates a table that is splitted to two columns but i need table to be two column wide. This table is part of a document and i am using a journal's class (two column) file. — selcuk yalcinkaya, Dec 14 '23 at 11:11
If you show no code it is hard to guess what you did wrong and hard to correct it. you should be able to make an example with \usepackage[twocolumn]{article} — David Carlisle, Dec 14 '23 at 11:14
oh you mean you want the table full width, then you can use longtable or supertab, just put \onecolumn before the table and\twocolumn after it (if the journal publisher allows that, they may not.) — David Carlisle, Dec 14 '23 at 11:15
Thanks for your understanding @DavidCarlisle. Your suggestion worked! — selcuk yalcinkaya, Dec 14 '23 at 15:20
You can use https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/477188/removing-the-space-in-the-page-before-appendix/477197?r=SearchResults&s=2%7C20.3092#477197 to put the start the longtable in the middle of a page, but you will wind up in onecolumn. You could use multicols there. — John Kormylo, Dec 14 '23 at 15:57

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '23 at 11:37

Summary

I've tried to the best of my ability and through an attempt at interpreting your question to tackle this with the tabularray package. I hope this is what you're after. If you wish to tweak this further, please have a look at the tabularray manual (especially the "Use Long Tables" section).

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tabularray}  % For the modern tabular typesetting
\UseTblrLibrary{siunitx}  % For the number alignment
\usepackage{multicol}  % For balanced two columns (also allows for easier abrupt termination of columns)
\usepackage{lipsum}  % For dummy text to fill up the two columns
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{2}
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{multicols}
\begin{longtblr}[

label={tab:ETDobs}, ]{

width=\textwidth, hlines, vlines, rowhead=1,

} System      & ETD Number GJ 1214     & ETD44 GJ 1214     & ETD48 GJ 1214     & ETD71 GJ 1214     & ETD86 GJ 1214     & ETD97 GJ 1214     & ETD105 HAT-P-1     & ETD37 HAT-P-1     & ETD44 HAT-P-10    & ETD9 HAT-P-10    & ETD18

HAT-P-10    & ETD21 HAT-P-10    & ETD36 HAT-P-10    & ETD39 HAT-P-10    & ETD44 HAT-P-10    & ETD71 HAT-P-10    & ETD85 HAT-P-10    & ETD87 HAT-P-10    & ETD88 HAT-P-10    & ETD99 HAT-P-10    & ETD100 HAT-P-10    & ETD101 HAT-P-10    & ETD102 HAT-P-10    & ETD103 HAT-P-10    & ETD113 HAT-P-13    & ETD39 HAT-P-13    & ETD82 HAT-P-13    & ETD100 HAT-P-13    & ETD104 HAT-P-13    & ETD107 HAT-P-16    & ETD10 HAT-P-16    & ETD13 HAT-P-16    & ETD15 HAT-P-16    & ETD16 HAT-P-16    & ETD2 HAT-P-16    & ETD23 HAT-P-16    & ETD27

HAT-P-16    & ETD31 HAT-P-16    & ETD36 HAT-P-16    & ETD37 HAT-P-16    & ETD38 HAT-P-16    & ETD39

HAT-P-16    & ETD45 HAT-P-16    & ETD46 HAT-P-16    & ETD47 HAT-P-16    & ETD5 HAT-P-16    & ETD57 HAT-P-16    & ETD59 HAT-P-16    & ETD6

HAT-P-16    & ETD60 HAT-P-16    & ETD61 HAT-P-16    & ETD63 HAT-P-16    & ETD64 HAT-P-16    & ETD65 HAT-P-16    & ETD69 HAT-P-16    & ETD70

HAT-P-16    & ETD70 HAT-P-16    & ETD7 HAT-P-16    & ETD72 HAT-P-16    & ETD73 HAT-P-16    & ETD76 HAT-P-16    & ETD78 HAT-P-16    & ETD79 HAT-P-16    & ETD80 HAT-P-16    & ETD9 HAT-P-22    & ETD53 HAT-P-22    & ETD55 HAT-P-22    & ETD68 HAT-P-22    & ETD78 HAT-P-22    & ETD79 HAT-P-30    & ETD14 HAT-P-30    & ETD15 HAT-P-30    & ETD16 HAT-P-30    & ETD18 HAT-P-30    & ETD22 HAT-P-30    & ETD26 HAT-P-30    & ETD30

HAT-P-30    & ETD30 HAT-P-30    & ETD32 HAT-P-30    & ETD33 HAT-P-30    & ETD39

HAT-P-30    & ETD41 HAT-P-30    & ETD47 HAT-P-30    & ETD51 HAT-P-30    & ETD52 HAT-P-30    & ETD53 HAT-P-30    & ETD55 HAT-P-30    & ETD56 HAT-P-30    & ETD58 HAT-P-30    & ETD59 \end{longtblr}

caption={ETD observers whose light curves were used in this study.}, colspec={*{2}{X[c,m,0.85]} X[c,m,0.65] X[c,m,1] X[c,m,1,si={table-format=10.0, table-number-alignment=center}]}, row{1}={guard, font=\bfseries}, & Filter    & Observer                  & TRESCA Protocol Number \ & Clear     & Thomas Sauer              & 1278597072 \ & I         & Johannes Ohlert           & 1281369862 \ & Clear     & ESSEIVA Nicolas           & 1368129605 \ & Clear     & Fran Campos               & 1436715932 \ & I         & Marc Bretton              & 1531068175 \ & Clear     & Paul Benni                & 1616843398 \ & R         & Ramon Naves               & 1378191469 \ & V         & Marc Bretton              & 1506648757 \ & Clear     & Luboš Brát                & 1252467945 \ & Clear     & {Samuel Durrance,\ Stacy Irwin}             & 1292271351 \ & Clear     & Luboš Brát                & 1317438434 \ & R         & Mark Salisbury            & 1350197834 \ & Clear     & Alfonso Carreno           & 1354463447 \ & Clear     & Paul Benni                & 1380843090 \ & R         & Ferran Grau Horta         & 1419237611 \ & Clear     & David Molina              & 1476120518 \ & R         & Wonseok Kang              & 1484834873 \ & R         & Wonseok Kang              & 1484831725 \ & V         & Yves Jongen               & 1544871912 \ & Clear     & Bruno Fontaine            & 1546017209 \ & Clear     & Yves Jongen               & 1567668774 \ & R         & Veli-Pekka Hentunen       & 1569003995 \ & V         & Yves Jongen               & 1569911364 \ & Clear     & Matthieu BACHSCHMIDT      & 1638791203 \ & R         & Ramon Naves               & 1296839849 \ & Clear     & Marc Bretton              & 1446972948 \ & Clear     & Manfred Raetz             & 1579296693 \ & R         & Manfred Raetz             & 1585809439 \ & R         & Yves Jongen               & 1612792652 \ & R         & Ruth ODougherty Sanchez   & 1291563452 \ & Clear     & Stan Shadick              & 1318731754 \ & Clear     & Jaroslav Trnka            & 1317463132 \ & R         & Thomas Sauer              & 1317639008 \ & Clear     & Jaroslav Trnka            & 1278846773 \ & I         & Stan Shadick              & 1349233966 \ & R         & {Petri Kehusmaa,\ Caisey Harlingten}       & 1351258657 \ & R         & Mark Salisbury            & 1378590453 \ & Clear     & Stan Shadick              & 1383606249 \ & Clear     & Paul Benni                & 1383673356 \ & Clear     & Anthony Ayiomamitis       & 1383875650 \ & R         & {Francesco Scaggiante,\ Danilo Zardin}           & 1386236706 \ & Clear     & Luca Rizzuti              & 1440519027 \ & Clear     & David Molina              & 1446965044 \ & R         & Fran Campos               & 1448107877 \ & Clear     & Martin Vrašťák            & 1285498403 \ & R         & Ramon Naves               & 1473584609 \ & Clear     & Trnka J.                  & 1477940875 \ & Clear     & {J. Világi,\ Š. Gajdoš}               & 1288224520 \ & Clear     & David Molina              & 1479143435 \ & I         & Kevin B. Alton            & 1507651821 \ & R         & Veli-Pekka Hentunen       & 1534770239 \ & Clear     & Anael Wunsche             & 1537205125 \ & R         & JOSEP GAITAN              & 1545555524 \ & V         & Yves Jongen               & 1567852468 \ & R         & {Francesco Scaggiante,\ Danilo Zardin}           & 1569339710 \ & R         & Marco Fiaschi             & 1569339710 \ & I         & Stan Shadick              & 1286159180 \ & V         & Mario Morales             & 1571209785 \ & V         & Truman State Observer     & 1583901308 \ & Clear     & Anael Wunsche             & 1596031262 \ & R         & Yves Jongen               & 1599988642 \ & R         & Yves Jongen               & 1602144863 \ & V         & Snaevarr Gudmundsson      & 1605914982 \ & Clear     & Stan Shadick              & 1288134822 \ & B         & Yves Jongen               & 1550908562 \ & R         & JOSEP GAITAN              & 1552034513 \ & R         & Manfred Raetz             & 1586181879 \ & I         & Manfred Raetz             & 1614798234 \ & Clear     & Matthieu BACHSCHMIDT      & 1617521673 \ & Clear     & Stan Shadick              & 1331321038 \ & I         & Stan Shadick              & 1333050479 \ & Clear     & Juanjo Gonzalez           & 1329671594 \ & R         & Stan Shadick              & 1331919572 \ & Clear     & Stan Shadick              & 1358100549 \ & I         & Giuseppe Marino           & 1392576172 \ & R         & {ANDRE Christophe,\ CLEMENT Jacques}         & 1420878866 \ & R         & NOUGAYREDE Jean-Philippe  & 1420878866 \ & R         & Marc Bretton              & 1425771388 \ & Clear     & Martin Zibar              & 1425774283 \ & R         & {Francesco Scaggiante,\ Danilo Zardin}           & 1516875191 \ & Clear     & Marc Bretton              & 1519263504 \ & V         & Yves Jongen               & 1580746869 \ & Clear     & Marc Bretton              & 1586081207 \ & R         & Yves Jongen               & 1607422166 \ & R         & Jean-Claude MARIO         & 1607859317 \ & R         & Yves Jongen               & 1612549479 \ & R         & Yves Jongen               & 1612791934 \ & R         & JOSEP GAITAN              & 1613042887 \ & R         & Anael Wunsche             & 1613037601
\end{document}

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@selcukyalcinkaya Would you mind marking this as the answer then? To respect the site's procedure, please refrain from commenting about a thank you, and just mark it as an answer. (Although, I do appreciate the comment.) — BrightBulb123, Dec 14 '23 at 23:48

How to I create double column, continuous table in a 2 column document?

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