Creating a table starting midway on a page, and wrapping to the next in LaTex

Question

I am trying to create a table in LaTex. The two methods for doing this I see involves using tabular or longtable. However they both have different issues I am not sure how to work around.

Longtables are good at handeling tables that extend onto the next page, but they always have to start at the top of a new page.

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Tabular can start at any point in a page, but they cannot handle wrapping to the next page.

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Is there an easy way to make a table that can start midway on a page, and extend over to the next?

Thank you!

Answer 1

A longtable as such can of course start mid-page:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{longtable}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[2]

\begin{longtable}{lr}
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
test & test\\
\end{longtable}

\end{document}