The style itself is called as \documenstyle option
\documentstyle[...,autotab,...]{darticle}. The tabular
creating commands are called inside a tabular or
supertabular environment. Syntax:
\readtabline{...} |
reads from data file and generates the tabular entries; argument is the number of columns = number of records which bild one tabular line |
\autotabline |
is the built tabular entry, inserts it's into the tabular at the specified point |
Every time \readtabline is called it asks for the name of
the input data file and starts reading. The style reads as much records
as specified by the argument of the \readtabline command,
puts them into \autotabline connected with ampersands (&)
and adds \\ to the last of these records.
This algorithm is repeated until end-of-file is found.
Using autotab in conjunction with the supertabular environment offers the possibility to generate tabulars without regard to necessary pagebreaks, because they will be inserted automatically by supertabular (see separate description).