On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Niels Giesen <niels.gie...@gmail.com>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/ > > Brilliant! This is fantastic. I love that you can leave it alone (default) or choose to change the variables. Thanks so much for chiming in. John > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:21 PM, John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Thomas S. Dye <t...@tsdye.com> 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 <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 >>> >> >> > > > -- > http://pft.github.com >
