Re: [Orgmode] Re: latex export and booktabs tables

[Thomas S. Dye]

Hi Eric,

This is neat, but it doesn't directly address the problem posed by the OP.  

Currently, the LaTeX exporter uses \hline for all the horizontal rules in a table.  Booktabs defines three rules of different thickness for use at the top of the table, after the column heads, and at the bottom of the table.  So, one would want a function that let each of the rules take a different value.  The default for each could be hline, giving the current behavior of the exporter.  Francesco Pizzolante set this out nicely a while back: http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg18311.html in a message that Seb Vauban brought up in a slightly different context.

All the best,

Tom

On Jun 27, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Eric Schulte wrote:

One way to deal with this without adding even more complexity to the
core of org-mode could be through the use of "Library of Babel"
functions.

The attached org-mode file provides a function for exporting to the
longtable environment with some example usage.  If this looks generally
useful it (and maybe similar functions) could be added to the library of
babel distributed w/Org-mode.

What do you think? -- Eric

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Sébastien Vauban <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Erik,

Erik Butz wrote:

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.

While trying to improve this, I think one could extend it so that the table

environment can be changed as well, from `tabular' to `array', `tabular*',

`tabularx' or any other.

There was a discussion on this, a while ago, by Francesco Pizzolante. Have a

read at: http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg18311.html.

Best regards,

 Seb

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