From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Hendy Subject: Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs? Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:50:18 -0600 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001517592c263db81d04b659389b Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41709) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlPjH-0001tt-2D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:50:28 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlPjB-0000L8-9D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:50:26 -0500 Received: from mail-bk0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:42137) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlPjA-0000Ky-Or for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:50:21 -0500 Received: by bkuw5 with SMTP id w5so1912276bku.0 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:50:18 -0800 (PST) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode --001517592c263db81d04b659389b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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/ --001517592c263db81d04b659389b Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 fo= r 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?

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