Le vendredi 20 juin 2014 à 11:22 -0400, Benedict Holland a écrit :
> Before you do this... read this article.
> http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001IV
On this page, I noticed the following comment:
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I'm a fan of putting a thin dotted or light-colored line below every
third row in the table (as at left, in the above image) for two reasons:
When scanning across rows, the reader can keep his place by using
the position of the line as a point of reference. Each row either has a
line directly above it, below it, or has no line adjacent to it.
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I couldn't state it better. This reminded me of a rather old book I was
reading when I was young (Dungeons and Dragons manual...) with numerous
tables. The background was alternately white and grey, but changed only
every 3rd lines. So the zebra effect, if any, was not intrusive.
I've always found it a example of good readability, for the reason
explained above. However, the table has to be long enough, and it may
look bad in photocopy.
>
> 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}
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> not {color}). Don't know how you found that! PERFECT!
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>
>
> 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
>
>
>
--
Daniel CLEMENT
