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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label rulethk</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>The thickness of rules in LaTeX tables</h3>
-<p/>The rules in a LaTeX table are by default <code>0.4pt</code> thick;
-this is in fact a default built in at the lowest level, and applies to
-all rules (including those separating blocks of running text).
-<p/>Sometimes, however, we look at a table and find we want the rules to
-stand out &#8212; perhaps to separate the text from the rest of the body
-text, or to make the sections of the table stand out from one another.
-However, a quick review of any LaTeX manual will reveal no
-technique for making any one rule stand out, and a little
-experimentation shows that it is indeed pretty difficult to prevent
-a change &#8220;bleeding&#8221; out to affect other rules in the same table.
-<p/>If you look at what we have to say on the
-<a href="FAQ-destable.html">design of tables</a>, elsewhere
-among these FAQs, and you may sense that the design of LaTeX
-simply skipped the issues surrounding table design: <em>that&#8217;s</em>
-presumably why there&#8217;s no facilities to help you.
-<p/>Specifically, the length <code>\</code><code>arrayrulewidth</code> affects the thickness of
-the rules (both horizontal and vertical) within both
-<code>tabular</code> and <code>array</code> environments. If you
-change from the default (see above) only as far as
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{1pt}
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-the change is remarkably striking. However, really quite subtle user
-level programming proves incapable of changing just <em>one</em> rule:
-it&#8217;s necessary to delve into the (rather tricky) code of <code>\</code><code>hline</code>
-and <code>\</code><code>cline</code> themselves.
-<p/>Fortunately, this job has already been done for the community: the
-<i>booktabs</i> package defines three different classes of rule
-(<code>\</code><code>toprule</code>, <code>\</code><code>midrule</code> and <code>\</code><code>bottomrule</code>), and the package
-documentation offers hints on how to use them. You are
-<em>strongly</em> advised to read the documentation pretty carefully.
-<p/>The <i>memoir</i> class includes the <i>booktabs</i> package, and
-repeats the documentation in its compendious manual.
-<p/>Note that none of the above mentions the issue of the weight of
-vertical rules (except in passing). For the reasons, see the
-documentation of the <i>booktabs</i> package (again); vertical
-rules in tables are in any case even more trickily coded than are
-horizontal rules, and if their lack of configurability makes them
-still less attractive, so much the better for the design of your
-document.
-<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>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>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=rulethk">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=rulethk</a>
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