Making a long table continue over two columns
Use the \twocolumn
format, then you can use the package supertabular
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{supertabular}
\begin{document}
\twocolumn
\tablehead{Header of first column & Header of second column \\}
\begin{supertabular}{ccc}
Table cell 1, 1 & Table cell 1, 2 \\
Table cell 2, 1 & Table cell 2, 2 \\
Table cell 1, 1 & Table cell 1, 2 \\
...
...
\end{supertabular}
\end{document}
together with the package multicols
you can only use the tabbing
environment.
A way to use longtable
within multicols
is described in one of the answers to Balancing long table inside multicol in LaTeX. As multicol does balancing after the table is processed some of the features (like repeated table headings) will not work though.
A way to use supertabular
with multicols
is described in Trick Supertabular into Multicols in new command.
The difference between the two table environments is that supertabular
is calculating the table cell width anew for each column while longtable
keeps them uniform.
I already posted this answer in a similar question, but I used minipage
and vdots
and got the effect I wanted:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\caption{Your Caption}
\begin{minipage}{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
\toprule
\textbf{Cell} & \textbf{Simulation} & \textbf{Theoretical} \\
\midrule
0 & 0.0 & 7.88e-31 \\
\vdots & \vdots & \vdots \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{minipage} \hfill
\begin{minipage}{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
\toprule
\textbf{Cell} & \textbf{Simulation} & \textbf{Theoretical} \\
\midrule
\vdots & \vdots & \vdots \\
99 & 0.0 & 7.88-29 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{minipage}
\end{table}
\end{document}