From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) Subject: Re: Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs? Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:12:23 -1000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41399) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlR0l-00039A-O0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:12:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlR0f-00016o-Mq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:12:35 -0500 Received: from oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com ([66.147.249.253]:51893) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RlR0f-00016g-Fb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:12:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: (John Hendy's message of "Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:50:18 -0600") 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: John Hendy Cc: emacs-orgmode Hi John, Agreed, booktabs makes good looking tables.=20=20 Check out your Library of Babel. There should be a couple of functions there that will help you go from Org mode to booktabs. hth, Tom =20 John Hendy 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 bookta= bs > 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 \hline= s. > 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 "Professi= onal tables" section. [1] [2] > I really, really liked it's formatting, especially since one of my co= lumn headers was a fraction. The standard tabular package places the \hline= s extremely close to the top and bottom of my header row vs., as the bookta= bs package says, having extremely nice looking spacing for the table. I end= ed up doing the table manually inside #+begin_latex block. > Would there be any way to specify that booktabs should be used? The forma= tting is literally identical except for 1) including the booktabs package a= nd 2) using \toprule, \midrule and \bottomrule instead of \hlines. In fact,= even with booktabs included, if you use \hlines instead of the booktab spe= cific lines, you'll get a "regular" tabular table. > Any thoughts on this?Best regards,John-----[1]=C2=A0http://en.wikibooks.o= rg/wiki/LaTeX/Tables#Professional_tables > [2]=C2=A0http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/ --=20 Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com