On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Agreed, booktabs makes good looking tables.
>
> Check out your Library of Babel.  There should  be a couple of functions
> there that will help you go from Org mode to booktabs.
>
>
Haven't done much with babel other than writing code blocks. Do you mean
this page?
--- http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/library-of-babel.html

Thanks for the suggestion. Feeling a bit lost, but am happy to look around
for something that seems similar. I have no elisp-fu, so it'll need to be
pretty darn similar :)


John


> hth,
> Tom
>
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> >
> > I was using wikibooks for some formatting assistance on tables the other
> > day and ran into mention of the booktabs package in the "Professional
> > tables" section. [1] [2]
> >
> > I really, really liked it's formatting, especially since one of my column
> > headers was a fraction. The standard tabular package places the \hlines
> > extremely close to the top and bottom of my header row vs., as the
> booktabs
> > package says, having extremely nice looking spacing for the table. I
> ended
> > up doing the table manually inside #+begin_latex block.
> >
> > Would there be any way to specify that booktabs should be used? The
> > formatting is literally identical except for 1) including the booktabs
> > package and 2) using \toprule, \midrule and \bottomrule instead of
> \hlines.
> > In fact, even with booktabs included, if you use \hlines instead of the
> > booktab specific lines, you'll get a "regular" tabular table.
> >
> > Any thoughts on this?
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > John
> >
> > -----
> > [1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables#Professional_tables
> > [2] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/
> > Greetings,I was using wikibooks for some formatting assistance on tables
> the other day and ran into mention of the booktabs package in the
> "Professional tables" section. [1] [2]
> > I really, really liked it&#39;s formatting, especially since one of my
> column headers was a fraction. The standard tabular package places the
> \hlines extremely close to the top and bottom of my header row vs., as the
> booktabs package says, having extremely nice looking spacing for the table.
> I ended up doing the table manually inside #+begin_latex block.
> > Would there be any way to specify that booktabs should be used? The
> formatting is literally identical except for 1) including the booktabs
> package and 2) using \toprule, \midrule and \bottomrule instead of \hlines.
> In fact, even with booktabs included, if you use \hlines instead of the
> booktab specific lines, you&#39;ll get a "regular" tabular table.
> > Any thoughts on this?Best regards,John-----[1]
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables#Professional_tables
> > [2] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/
>
> --
> Thomas S. Dye
> http://www.tsdye.com
>