Re: Shaded Tables?

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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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: \usepackage[table]{color} \definecolor{lightgray}{gray}{0.9} \let\oldtabular\tabular

Re: Shaded Tables?

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:

Re: Shaded 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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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.

Re: Shaded Tables?

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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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: \usepackage[table]{color} \definecolor{lightgray}{gray}{0.9} \let\oldtabular\tabular

Re: Shaded Tables?

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:

Re: Shaded 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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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.

Re: Shaded Tables?

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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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: \usepackage[table]{color} \definecolor{lightgray}{gray}{0.9} \let\oldtabular\tabular

Re: Shaded Tables?

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: >

Re: Shaded 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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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. >

Re: Shaded Tables?

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

Re: Shaded Tables?

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