Sorry, completely avoidable. Check out The books by Edward Tufte for some excellent visuals and explanations about why they are so good.
~Ben On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Benedict Holland < [email protected]> wrote: > Before you do this... read this article. > http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001IV > > Zebra tables are almost always a bad idea. The correct way to solve the > problem is through typesetting and either avoiding or using horizontal > lines. You also should look at booktabs for some excellent visual > explanations. Basically, try your best to not do this. It is quite hard for > people to read and can be completely unavoidable. If you think you need > this solution, the problem is that your columns are too wide for the data > and there isn't enough spacing between your rows. > > ~Ben > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Evan Langlois <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks guys. >> >> Tom's suggestion worked great (except its ... >> >> \usepackage[table]{xcolor} >> >> not {color}). Don't know how you found that! PERFECT! >> >> >> Scott - Table 2.16 doesn't look like its shaded that way, and trying to >> pull it up in PDF tells me that package babel has unknown option ngerman >> and craps out on me. Something broken? Bug or my config? >> >> -- Evan >> > >
