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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-destable.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-destable.html index 7ab757c942d..cd8564e28a7 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-destable.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/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 @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ value <code>10pt</code>) and <code>\</code><code>belowcaptionskip</code> (defaul \end{table} </pre> </blockquote><p> -does the job. (The package itself is very slightly more elaborate…) +does the job. (The package itself is very slightly more elaborate…) <dl> <dt><tt><i>booktabs.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs.zip">macros/latex/contrib/booktabs</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/">browse the directory</a>) <dt><tt><i>KOMA script bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.zip">macros/latex/contrib/koma-script</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/">browse the directory</a>) |