Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-02-13 Thread John Hendy
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Thomas S. Dye t...@tsdye.com wrote: John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com wrote: John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Thomas S. Dye t...@tsdye.com wrote: Hi

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-02-09 Thread John Hendy
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Niels Giesen niels.gie...@gmail.com writes: I say: go for it! Booktabs are available in e-latex backend, through booktabs=yes attribute or org-e-latex-tables-booktabs variable. This is currently

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-02-09 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Hi John, I had the same experience. When I restarted Emacs, it was there. What's more, it appears to work. I haven't had time to explore thoroughly but the initial test worked out of the box. All the best, Tom John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Nicolas

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-02-09 Thread John Hendy
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Thomas S. Dye t...@tsdye.com wrote: Hi John, I had the same experience.  When I restarted Emacs, it was there. What's more, it appears to work.  I haven't had time to explore thoroughly but the initial test worked out of the box. I've restarted... still

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-02-09 Thread Nick Dokos
John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Thomas S. Dye t...@tsdye.com wrote: Hi John, I had the same experience.  When I restarted Emacs, it was there. What's more, it appears to work.  I haven't had time to explore thoroughly but the initial test worked out

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-02-09 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Sorry John, I think the important step is (require 'org-e-latex). When I checked just now I couldn't see org-e-latex-booktables, but when I went back to my initialization code and ran it, the variable was visible. hth, Tom John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM,

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-02-09 Thread Nick Dokos
John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Thomas S. Dye t...@tsdye.com wrote: Hi John, I had the same experience.  When I restarted Emacs, it was there. What's more, it appears to work.  I haven't had time to explore thoroughly but the initial test worked out

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-02-09 Thread John Hendy
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com wrote: John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Thomas S. Dye t...@tsdye.com wrote: Hi John, I had the same experience.  When I restarted Emacs, it was there. What's more, it appears to work.  I

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-02-09 Thread John Hendy
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com wrote: John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Thomas S. Dye t...@tsdye.com wrote: Hi John, I had the same experience.  When I restarted Emacs, it was there. What's more, it appears to work.  I

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-02-09 Thread Thomas S. Dye
John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com wrote: John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Thomas S. Dye t...@tsdye.com wrote: Hi John, I had the same experience.  When I restarted Emacs, it was

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-02-08 Thread Niels Giesen
I say: go for it! On Saturday, February 4, 2012, Nicolas Goaziou n.goaz...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Niels Giesen wrote: There is a patch

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-02-08 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Niels Giesen niels.gie...@gmail.com writes: I say: go for it! Booktabs are available in e-latex backend, through booktabs=yes attribute or org-e-latex-tables-booktabs variable. I don't make use of :skipheadrule yet, since it's not in tree. Speaking about it, it should be a good idea to

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-02-04 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Niels Giesen wrote: There is a patch from me waiting to be incorporated into org mode that lets one use booktabs as export for

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-02-03 Thread John Hendy
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Niels Giesen 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 @

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-01-13 Thread John Hendy
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

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-01-13 Thread Niels Giesen
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/ 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,

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-01-13 Thread John Hendy
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Niels Giesen niels.gie...@gmail.comwrote: 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

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-01-13 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Jan 13, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Niels Giesen 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/ Hi NIels, I am looking now at this patch, and

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-01-13 Thread John Hendy
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.comwrote: On Jan 13, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Niels Giesen 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 @

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-01-13 Thread Daniel Bausch
Hello! On a usage note, I was surprised that the patch causes automatic insertion of top and bottom rules even when the org table doesn't use ascii top/bottom rules. In fact, if you use |- to put ascii rules on an org chart using this patch, you get double rules. Disclaimer: I did not test

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-01-13 Thread John Hendy
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Daniel Bausch danielbau...@gmx.de wrote: Hello! On a usage note, I was surprised that the patch causes automatic insertion of top and bottom rules even when the org table doesn't use ascii top/bottom rules. In fact, if you use |- to put ascii rules on an

[O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-01-12 Thread John Hendy
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

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-01-12 Thread Thomas S. Dye
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

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-01-12 Thread John Hendy
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

Re: [O] Way to replace normal tabular env with booktabs?

2012-01-12 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Hi John, The Library of Babel comes with your Org-mode distribution. You'll find it at /contrib/babel/library-of-babel.org 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: