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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label destable</title>
-</head><body>
-<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&#8217; 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&#8217;s
-book &#8220;mean&#8221;.
-<p/>The criticism focuses on the excessive use of rules (both horizontal
-and vertical) and on the poor vertical spacing that Lamport&#8217;s macros
-offer.
-<p/>The problem of vertical spacing is plain for all to see, and is
-addressed in several packages &#8212; see
-&#8220;<a href="FAQ-struttab.html">spacing of lines in tables</a>&#8221;.
-<p/>The argument about rules is presented in the excellent essay that
-prefaces the documentation of Simon Fear&#8217;s <i>booktabs</i> package,
-which (of course) implements Fear&#8217;s scheme for &#8216;comfortable&#8217; rules.
-(The same rule commands are implemented in the <i>memoir</i> class.)
-<p/>Lamport&#8217;s LaTeX was also inflexibly wrong in &#8220;insisting&#8221; 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
-position wrong (by <code>10pt</code>) if you simply write:
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-\begin{table}
- \caption{Example table}
- \begin{tabular}{...}
- ...
- \end{tabular}
-\end{table}
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-The <i>topcapt</i> package solves this problem:
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-\usepackage{topcapt}
-...
-\begin{table}
- \topcaption{Example table}
- \begin{tabular}{...}
- ...
- \end{tabular}
-\end{table}
-</pre>
-</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>
-<em>means</em> <code>\</code><code>captionabove</code>, in table environments. The
-<i>caption</i> (from the release of 23 January, 2004) may be loaded
-with an option that has the same effect:
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-\usepackage[tableposition=top]{caption}
-</pre>
-</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:
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-\begin{table}
- \setlength{\abovecaptionskip}{0pt}
- \setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{10pt}
- \caption{Example table}
- \begin{tabular}{...}
- ...
- \end{tabular}
-\end{table}
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-does the job. (The package itself is very slightly more elaborate&#8230;)
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>booktabs.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs.zip">macros/latex/contrib/booktabs</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/booktabs.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>KOMA script bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.zip">macros/latex/contrib/koma-script</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>memoir.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.zip">macros/latex/contrib/memoir</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/memoir.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>topcapt.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/misc/topcapt.sty">macros/latex/contrib/misc/topcapt.sty</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/topcapt.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=destable">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=destable</a>
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