[texhax] Help with tabular -- getting a table to stay on the 1st page

[Karl Berry]

    I've tried the following:

Those settings would generally only have an effect at the beginning of
the document and/or before TeX starts the page with the tabular.

    In every case, however, latex seems to think the table is too big for the

Well, this isn't approved LaTeX, but it should smash the tabular so that
LaTeX thinks it occupies no space at all.

  \vbox to 0pt{%
    \vss
    \begin{tabular}
    ...
    \end{tabular}  
  }
  \newpage

LaTeX folks here no doubt know of a nicer solution :).

HTH,
Karl