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

[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:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#sec-13-2

hth,
Tom

John Hendy <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Thomas S. Dye <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden> 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&#39;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&#39;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
>>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Thomas S. Dye <span 
> dir="ltr"><mailto:address@hidden></span> 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&#39;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&#39;ll need to be 
> pretty darn similar :)
> John 
> hth,
> Tom
>
> John Hendy <mailto:address@hidden> 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&#39;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&#39;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&#39;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&#39;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/
> <span class="HOEnZb">
> --
> Thomas S. Dye
> http://www.tsdye.com
> </span>

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