Re: Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

[John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Niels Giesen <niels.giesen@gmail.com>wrote:

> There is a patch from me waiting to be incorporated into org mode that
> lets one use booktabs as export for normal org tables.
>
> You can find it @ http://patchwork.newartisans.com/patch/1016/
>
>
Brilliant! This is fantastic. I love that you can leave it alone (default)
or choose to change the variables.

Thanks so much for chiming in.


John



>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:21 PM, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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&#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
>>> >>
>>> > 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&#39;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&#39;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&#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/
>>> >> 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/
>>> > <span class="HOEnZb">
>>> > --
>>> > Thomas S. Dye
>>> > http://www.tsdye.com
>>> > </span>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thomas S. Dye
>>> http://www.tsdye.com
>>>
>>
>>
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