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 <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