New on CTAN: multicoltab
This is the first release of multicoltab, a LaTeX package providing a table environment whose rows can continue in the next column of a multicols layout or on subsequent pages. Each source row is typeset as an independent tabularx, allowing breaks between rows while keeping each row intact. Unlike longtable and xltabular, multicoltab is designed to work inside multicols. It supports consistent natural column widths, X columns, optional headings, row spacing, break penalties, and explicit column or page continuations with heading repetition.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/multicoltab The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/multicoltab/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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Multicoltab – Free flow table for multicols layouts
This package provides a non-floating table environment whose rows can continue from one column to the next inside a multicols layout, or continue on later pages in ordinary one-column text. Each source row is typeset as an independent tabularx, so page and column breaks can occur between rows but never in the middle of a row.
Unlike longtable and xltabular, multicoltab is designed to cooperate with multicols. longtable modifies LaTeX’s output routine and does not work inside multicols or on ordinary twocolumn pages. Since xltabular is based on longtable, it has the same limitation in this context. multicoltab avoids modifying the output routine and instead lets multicols handle the column and page flow naturally.
The package supports natural-width l, c, and r columns, fixed-width paragraph columns, X columns, column modifiers, consistent column widths across all rows, optional headings, row spacing, break penalties, and explicit column or page continuation commands with heading repetition.
longtable or xltabular remain preferable for conventional full-width multi-page tables requiring captions, automatic page headers and footers, or footnotes. multicoltab is intended for compact non-floating tables and lists that must flow through a multicols layout.
| Package | Multicoltab |
| Version | 0.6a 2026-09-02 |
| Copyright | 2026 Andres Zanzani |
| Maintainer | Andres Zanzani |