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 writing code blocks. Do you mean this page? --- http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/library-of-babel.html Thanks for the suggestion. Feeling a bit lost, but am happy to look around for something that seems similar. I have no elisp-fu, so it'll need to be pretty darn similar :) John > hth, > Tom > > John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> writes: > > > 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 package places the \hlines > > extremely close to the top and bottom of my header row vs., as the > booktabs > > package says, having extremely nice looking spacing for the table. I > ended > > up doing the table manually inside #+begin_latex block. > > > > Would there be any way to specify that booktabs should be used? The > > formatting is literally identical except for 1) including the booktabs > > package and 2) using \toprule, \midrule and \bottomrule instead of > \hlines. > > In fact, even with booktabs included, if you use \hlines instead of the > > booktab specific lines, you'll get a "regular" tabular table. > > > > Any thoughts on this? > > > > > > Best regards, > > John > > > > ----- > > [1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables#Professional_tables > > [2] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/ > > 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 package places the > \hlines extremely close to the top and bottom of my header row vs., as the > booktabs package says, having extremely nice looking spacing for the table. > I ended up doing the table manually inside #+begin_latex block. > > Would there be any way to specify that booktabs should be used? The > formatting is literally identical except for 1) including the booktabs > package and 2) using \toprule, \midrule and \bottomrule instead of \hlines. > In fact, even with booktabs included, if you use \hlines instead of the > booktab specific lines, you'll get a "regular" tabular table. > > Any thoughts on this?Best regards,John-----[1] > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables#Professional_tables > > [2] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/ > > -- > Thomas S. Dye > http://www.tsdye.com >
