Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

[Thomas S. Dye]

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.

hth,
Tom
 
John Hendy <address@hidden> 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/

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