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

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jan 13, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Niels Giesen 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/

Hi NIels,

I am looking now at this patch, and maybe it would be better to implement these 
three variables as one, holding a property or association list?  Makes it 
easily extendable.

Equally important - it would be great if you could try to implement this same 
change in the new exporter engine from Nicolas, to ensure that the new exporter 
will not lag behind.

Regards

- Carsten

> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:21 PM, John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Thomas S. Dye <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Thomas S. Dye <address@hidden> 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 <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/
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thomas S. Dye
> >> http://www.tsdye.com
> >>
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Thomas S. Dye <span 
> > dir="ltr"><mailto:address@hidden></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: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&#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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- Carsten