Hi John, The Library of Babel comes with your Org-mode distribution.
You'll find it at /contrib/babel/library-of-babel.org 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 hth, Tom John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Thomas S. Dye <t...@tsdye.com> 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 <jw.he...@gmail.com> 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'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/ >> >> -- >> Thomas S. Dye >> http://www.tsdye.com >> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Thomas S. Dye <span > dir="ltr"><mailto:t...@tsdye.com></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'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 <mailto:jw.he...@gmail.com> 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'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/ > <span class="HOEnZb"> > -- > Thomas S. Dye > http://www.tsdye.com > </span> -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com