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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label struttab</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Spacing lines in tables</h3>
-<p/>(La)TeX mechanisms for maintaining the space between lines (the
-&#8220;<em>leading</em>&#8221;) rely on TeX&#8217;s paragraph builder, which compares
-the shape of consecutive lines and adjusts the space between them.
-<p/>These mechanisms can&#8217;t work in exactly the same way when (La)TeX is
-building a table, because the paragraph builder doesn&#8217;t get to see the
-lines themselves. As a result, tables sometimes typeset with lines
-uncomfortably close together (or occasionally ridiculously far apart).
-<p/>Traditional (moving metal type) typographers would adjust the spacing
-between lines of a table by use of a &#8220;<em>strut</em>&#8221; (a metal
-spacer). A TeX user can do exactly the same thing: most macro
-packages define a <code>\</code><code>strut</code> command, that defines a space appropriate
-to the current size of the text; placing a <code>\</code><code>strut</code> command at the
-end of a troublesome row is the simplest solution to the problem &#8212;
-if it works. Other solutions below are LaTeX-specific, but some
-may be simply translated to Plain TeX commands.
-<p/>If your table exhibits a systematic problem (i.e., every row is wrong
-by the same amount) use <code>\</code><code>extrarowheight</code>, which is defined by the
-<i>array</i> package:
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-\usepackage{array}% in the preamble
-...
-\setlength{\extrarowheight}{length}
-\begin{tabular}{....}
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-<p/>To correct a single row whose maladjustment isn&#8217;t corrected by a
-<code>\</code><code>strut</code> command, you can define your own, using
-<code>\</code><code>rule{0pt}{length}</code> &#8212; which is a near approximation to the
-command that goes inside a <code>\</code><code>strut</code>. The <i>bigstrut</i> package
-defines a strut command that you can use for this purpose:
-<code>\</code><code>bigstrut</code> on its own opens up both above and below the current
-line; <code>\</code><code>bigstrut[t]</code> opens up above the line,
-<code>\</code><code>bigstrut[b]</code> opens up below the line.
-<p/>General solutions are available, however. The <i>tabls</i> package
-automatically generates an appropriately-sized strut at the end of
-each row. Its disadvantages are that it&#8217;s really rather slow in
-operation (since it gets in the way of everything within tables) and
-its (lack of) compatibility with other packages.
-<p/>The <i>cellspace</i> package does a (possibly inferior) job by
-defining a new table/array column type &#8220;S&#8221;, which you apply to each
-column specification. So, for example,
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-\cmdinvoke{begin}{tabular}{l l l p{3cm}}
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-would become
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-\cmdinvoke{begin}{tabular}{Sl Sl Sl Sp{3cm}}
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-and so on. This technique shows
-promise of not interfering so much with other packages, but this
-author has heard of no reports from the field.
-<p/>The <i>booktabs</i> package comes with a thought-provoking essay
-about how tables should be designed. Since table row-spacing problems
-most often appear in collisions with rules, the author&#8217;s thesis,
-that LaTeX users tend too often to rule their tables, is
-interesting. The package provides rule commands to support the
-author&#8217;s scheme, but deals with inter-row spacing too. The most
-recent release of <i>booktabs</i> sports compatibility with
-packages such as <i>longtable</i>.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>array.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/array.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>bigstrut.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/multirow.zip">macros/latex/contrib/multirow</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/multirow/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/bigstrut.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<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>cellspace.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/cellspace.zip">macros/latex/contrib/cellspace</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/cellspace/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/cellspace.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>tabls.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tabls.zip">macros/latex/contrib/tabls</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tabls/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/tabls.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=struttab">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=struttab</a>
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