Just to throw in my 2 cents.
[/quote]
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
I got some excellent feedback yesterday about this actually. So I don't
expect people to rush out and buy books but let me clarify a bit. Booktabs
is a latex library which produces publication quality tables. It is free.
The PDF takes about 10 minutes to read to get the problems faced when
Just to throw in my 2 cents.
[/quote]
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
I got some excellent feedback yesterday about this actually. So I don't
expect people to rush out and buy books but let me clarify a bit. Booktabs
is a latex library which produces publication quality tables. It is free.
The PDF takes about 10 minutes to read to get the problems faced when
Just to throw in my 2 cents.
[/quote]
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
I got some excellent feedback yesterday about this actually. So I don't
expect people to rush out and buy books but let me clarify a bit. Booktabs
is a latex library which produces publication quality tables. It is free.
The PDF takes about 10 minutes to read to get the problems faced when
in.
Comments? Ideas? Suggestions?
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Tom Hopper tomhop...@gmail.com wrote:
This might do what you want:
http://texblog.org/2011/09/02/coloring-every-alternate-table-row/
From that page, define the following in your preamble, and you should get
alternating colors in all tables:
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
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
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
benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com wrote:
Before you do this... read this article.
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:
[/quote]
I'm a fan of putting a thin dotted or light-colored line below
So now we are getting into type settings and visual aids and what is easier
for us to read. I would argue that highlighting every 3rd row should place
special emphasis on that row for some strange reason. Your eyes will
naturally shift to the different row.
The reasons to not zebra stripe are
in.
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Tom Hopper tomhop...@gmail.com wrote:
This might do what you want:
http://texblog.org/2011/09/02/coloring-every-alternate-table-row/
From that page, define the following in your preamble, and you should get
alternating colors in all tables:
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
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
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
benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com wrote:
Before you do this... read this article.
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:
[/quote]
I'm a fan of putting a thin dotted or light-colored line below
So now we are getting into type settings and visual aids and what is easier
for us to read. I would argue that highlighting every 3rd row should place
special emphasis on that row for some strange reason. Your eyes will
naturally shift to the different row.
The reasons to not zebra stripe are
or
> whatever I could bring in.
>
> Comments? Ideas? Suggestions?
>
>
>
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> View this message in context:
> http://lyx.475766.n2.nabble.com/Shaded-Tables-tp7580291.html
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>
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Tom Hopper wrote:
> This might do what you want:
> http://texblog.org/2011/09/02/coloring-every-alternate-table-row/
>
> From that page, define the following in your preamble, and you should get
> alternating colors in all tables:
>
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
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
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 <
benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Before you do this... read this article.
>
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:
[/quote]
I'm a fan of putting a thin dotted or light-colored line
So now we are getting into type settings and visual aids and what is easier
for us to read. I would argue that highlighting every 3rd row should place
special emphasis on that row for some strange reason. Your eyes will
naturally shift to the different row.
The reasons to not zebra stripe are
it as a
big graphic? Some combination of printer filters should give me an EPS or
whatever I could bring in.
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it as a
big graphic? Some combination of printer filters should give me an EPS or
whatever I could bring in.
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it as a
big graphic? Some combination of printer filters should give me an EPS or
whatever I could bring in.
Comments? Ideas? Suggestions?
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