emar writes:
> with pdflatex, the resulting lines in the tabular are much thinner
[...]
> How is that possible? is it because I use pdflatex instead of vlatex or
> dvipdfm?
I hadn't noticed this before. And if, i might have prepared this
example with another processor. But, that detail was not my main
objective. I just wanted to show that examples can be prepared using
any of the three ways.
Coming back to your question, doing some investigations it looks that
indeed vlatex produces lines by other means than the others.
I am not sure whether I really like that.
pdftex scales the pdf line mechanism to 0.996 pt, dvipdfm to 1 pt,
while vlatex creates the lines building a black rectangle with a
"thickness" of 1 pt. Depending on how these values are rounded to the
coarse pixel grid of your screen you may see different results. These
details vanish when printing to higher resolution media.
> or is it some setting of foiltex?
Not really, although foiltex seems to set this to a larger value of
1pt than the default of 0.4pt.
See the LaTeX companion for the parameter of tabular and array
environments, which is named \arrayrulewidth.
This is quoted to apply to the vertical and horizontal lines in
tables.
> how can I change it?
Try setting \arrayrulewidth to a larger value, if you like/need that.
Maybe this helps,
Klaus
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FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt
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