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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-rulethk.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-rulethk.html index 625afa7d991..2f56abae1b7 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-rulethk.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-rulethk.html @@ -2,22 +2,22 @@ <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; +<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 +<p/>Sometimes, however, we look at a table and find we want the rules to stand out — 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 “bleeding” out to affect other rules in the same table. -<p>If you look at what we have to say on the +<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’s</em> presumably why there’s no facilities to help you. -<p>Specifically, the length <code>\</code><code>arrayrulewidth</code> affects the thickness of +<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 @@ -30,14 +30,14 @@ the change is remarkably striking. However, really quite subtle user level programming proves incapable of changing just <em>one</em> rule: it’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 +<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 +<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 +<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 @@ -48,5 +48,5 @@ document. <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>) <dt><tt><i>memoir.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.zip">macros/latex/contrib/memoir</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/">browse</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> +<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> </body> |