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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-12-14 00:56:47 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-12-14 00:56:47 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-destable.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-destable.html index c4ab5c95a21..99b0c00764b 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-destable.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-destable.html @@ -4,20 +4,20 @@ <h3>The design of tables</h3> <p>In recent years, several authors have argued that the examples, set out by Lamport in his <a href="FAQ-books.html">LaTeX manual</a>, have cramped -authors' style and have led to extremely poor table design. It is in -fact difficult even to work out what many of the examples in Lamport's -book "mean". +authors’ style and have led to extremely poor table design. It is in +fact difficult even to work out what many of the examples in Lamport’s +book “mean”. <p>The criticism focuses on the excessive use of rules (both horizontal -and vertical) and on the poor vertical spacing that Lamport's macros +and vertical) and on the poor vertical spacing that Lamport’s macros offer. <p>The problem of vertical spacing is plain for all to see, and is -addressed in several packages - see -"<a href="FAQ-struttab.html">spacing of lines in tables</a>". +addressed in several packages — see +“<a href="FAQ-struttab.html">spacing of lines in tables</a>”. <p>The argument about rules is presented in the excellent essay that -prefaces the documentation of Simon Fear's <i>booktabs</i> package, -which (of course) implements Fear's scheme for 'comfortable' rules. +prefaces the documentation of Simon Fear’s <i>booktabs</i> package, +which (of course) implements Fear’s scheme for ‘comfortable’ rules. (The same rule commands are implemented in the <i>memoir</i> class.) -<p>Lamport's LaTeX was also inflexibly wrong in "insisting" that +<p>Lamport’s LaTeX was also inflexibly wrong in “insisting” that captions should come at the bottom of a table. Since a table may extend over several pages, traditional typography places the caption at the top of a table float. The <code>\</code><code>caption</code> command will get its @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ position wrong (by <code>10pt</code>) if you simply write: \end{tabular} \end{table} </pre> -</blockquote> +</blockquote><p> The <i>topcapt</i> package solves this problem: <blockquote> <pre> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ The <i>topcapt</i> package solves this problem: \end{tabular} \end{table} </pre> -</blockquote> +</blockquote><p> The <i>KOMA-script</i> classes provide a similar command <code>\</code><code>captionabove</code>; they also have a class option <code>tablecaptionabove</code> which arranges that <code>\</code><code>caption</code> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ with an option that has the same effect: <pre> \usepackage[tableposition=top]{caption} </pre> -</blockquote> +</blockquote><p> <p>Doing the job yourself is pretty easy: <i>topcapt</i> switches the values of the LaTeX2e parameters <code>\</code><code>abovecaptionskip</code> (default value <code>10pt</code>) and <code>\</code><code>belowcaptionskip</code> (default value <code>0pt</code>), so: @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ value <code>10pt</code>) and <code>\</code><code>belowcaptionskip</code> (defaul \end{tabular} \end{table} </pre> -</blockquote> +</blockquote><p> does the job. (The package itself is very slightly more elaborate...) <dl> <dt><tt><i>booktabs.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs.zip">macros/latex/contrib/booktabs</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/">browse</a>) |