David Carlisle

there is a 4.14 release in development see https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/tree/longtable4.14/required/tools It would be interesting to know if that version works OK for you, it is planned to release it with a...

This still needs some more inversigation, sorry. Hopefully not as long as the fall releasse, but pushing the milestone back so this does not block the process.

> > > there is a 4.14 release in development see > https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/tree/longtable4.14/required/tools > It would be interesting to know if that version works OK for you, it is planned...

Not at all convinced this is the right fix in general but afterpage ends up adding `\parskip` twice after the verse/list code has just removed it once. ``` \makeatletter \afterpage{AFTERPAGE\@minipagetrue}...

in that simple case just changing top margin, it might be possible to make something work, but newgeometry isn't needed there you could more simply use `\vspace*{-1cm}` but in general...

This was really by design but the first hit for a search for \endfirstfoot has some code from Heiko Oberdiek that probably works in your case https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68439/caption-at-foot-of-long-tables-longtable-package There are some...

Unfortunately there are too many pending enhancement requests for longtable, I need to do a coherent update at some point that integrates things but adding features one at a time...

Thanks for your report, that's ... unexpected. tabularx doesn't really inspect each row at all: it just inspects the column widths chosen by the primitive `\halign` for the entire table,...

After @FrankMittelbach ;s comment you can use ``` \newcommand{\foo}{% a & z z z z & w w w w \\ \hline b & \multicolumn{2}{>{\hsize=\dimexpr2\hsize+2\tabcolsep}X|}{x x x x} \\ \hline...

@weetmuts sorry keeping this open haven't had time to analyse this further but there is definitely an issue (I thought the analyse further label stopped the stale bot marking it...