From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:21:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft_U93uZaqNpkp+frDaQFXieEJjRZ+-_qra1yrdLjofcmA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> The Library of Babel comes with your Org-mode distribution.
>
> You'll find it at /contrib/babel/library-of-babel.org
>
>
I guess you learn something new every day!
> In the org file, look for
> * Tables
> ** LaTeX Table Export
>
> There should be functions booktabs and booktabs-notes.
>
> One way to use booktabs is described here:
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#sec-13-2
>
>
I'll check these out. Looked at the worg howto. Not a huge fan of the
method, especially with hiding my tables, but I'll give it a shot. I figure
there's got to be a simpler way; just change the first \hline -> \toprule
and the bottom one to \bottomrule; \midrules in between.
Thanks again,
John
> hth,
> Tom
>
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 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'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/
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thomas S. Dye
> >> http://www.tsdye.com
> >>
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Thomas S. Dye <span dir="ltr"><mailto:
> tsd@tsdye.com></span> 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 <mailto: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'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/
> > <span class="HOEnZb">
> > --
> > Thomas S. Dye
> > http://www.tsdye.com
> > </span>
>
> --
> Thomas S. Dye
> http://www.tsdye.com
>
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-12 18:50 Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs? John Hendy
2012-01-12 20:12 ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-01-12 23:19 ` John Hendy
2012-01-13 0:01 ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-01-13 13:21 ` John Hendy [this message]
2012-01-13 14:52 ` Niels Giesen
2012-01-13 15:35 ` John Hendy
2012-01-13 15:39 ` Carsten Dominik
2012-01-13 15:48 ` John Hendy
2012-01-13 18:32 ` Daniel Bausch
2012-01-13 19:03 ` John Hendy
2012-02-03 23:24 ` John Hendy
2012-02-04 15:54 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-02-08 13:17 ` Niels Giesen
2012-02-08 22:32 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-02-09 19:50 ` John Hendy
2012-02-09 19:57 ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-02-09 20:20 ` John Hendy
2012-02-09 20:24 ` Nick Dokos
2012-02-09 20:27 ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-02-09 20:29 ` Nick Dokos
2012-02-09 21:09 ` John Hendy
2012-02-09 21:26 ` John Hendy
2012-02-09 22:04 ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-02-13 22:13 ` John Hendy
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