Re: [Orgmode] latex export and booktabs tables

[Thomas S. Dye]

Aloha Erik,

The rules defined in booktabs work with longtables, if that is what  
you are asking.

All the best,
Tom

On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Erik Butz wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I found a very old thread on the list about using the booktabs package
> to have nicer tables in latex export.
>
> I found that, making the changes below I can use the booktab package
> to export tables, and using standard tables only, this seems to work
> fine.
>
> Can anyone advice on whether this kind of change is meaningful or if
> this is likely to introduce difficulties elsewhere which I did not
> experience due to the limited scope of usage? It should be said that I
> did not at all look into longtables so far.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Erik
>
> diff --git a/lisp/org-latex.el b/lisp/org-latex.el
> index 01a4b05..31ceba4 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-latex.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-latex.el
> @@ -1658,7 +1658,7 @@ The conversion is made depending of
> STRING-BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
>                         (if (and longtblp caption) "\\\\\n" "\n")
>                         (if (and org-export-latex-tables-centered
> (not longtblp))
>                             "\\begin{center}\n")
> -                        (if (not longtblp) (concat
> "\\begin{tabular}{" align "}\n"))
> +                        (if (not longtblp) (concat
> "\\begin{tabular}{" align "}\n\\toprule\n"))
>                         (orgtbl-to-latex
>                          lines
>                          `(:tstart nil :tend nil
> @@ -1670,7 +1670,7 @@ The conversion is made depending of
> STRING-BEFORE and STRING-AFTER."
> \\endfoot
> \\endlastfoot" (length org-table-last-alignment))
>                                              nil)))
> -                        (if (not longtblp) (concat "\n\ 
> \end{tabular}"))
> +                        (if (not longtblp) (concat
> "\n\\bottomrule\n\\end{tabular}"))
>                         (if longtblp "\n" (if org-export-latex- 
> tables-centered
>                                               "\n\\end{center}\n"  
> "\n"))
>                         (if longtblp
> diff --git a/lisp/org-table.el b/lisp/org-table.el
> index 46efc28..130ccf2 100644
> --- a/lisp/org-table.el
> +++ b/lisp/org-table.el
> @@ -4222,7 +4222,7 @@ this function is called."
>           :tstart (concat "\\begin{tabular}{" alignment "}")
>           :tend "\\end{tabular}"
>           :lstart "" :lend " \\\\" :sep " & "
> -          :efmt "%s\\,(%s)" :hline "\\hline")))
> +          :efmt "%s\\,(%s)" :hline "\\midrule")))
>     (orgtbl-to-generic table (org-combine-plists params2 params))))
>
> (defun orgtbl-to-html (table params)
> diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
> index 2628152..ed6dabe 100644
> --- a/lisp/org.el
> +++ b/lisp/org.el
> @@ -3087,6 +3087,7 @@ will be appended."
>     (""     "wasysym"   t)
>     (""     "latexsym"  t)
>     (""     "amssymb"   t)
> +    (""     "booktabs"   t)
>     (""     "hyperref"  nil)
>     "\\tolerance=1000"
>     )
>
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