\usepackage{array} \newcolumntype{$}{>{\global\let\currentrowstyle\relax}} \newcolumntype{^}{>{\currentrowstyle}} \newcommand{\rowstyle}[1]{\gdef\currentrowstyle{#1}% #1\ignorespaces }
Now, we put ‘$
’ before the first column specifier; and we
put ‘^
’
before the modifiers of subsequent ones. We then use \
rowstyle
at
the start of each row we want to modify:
\begin{tabular}{|$l|^l|^l|} \hline \rowstyle{\bfseries} Heading & Big and & Bold \\ \hline Meek & mild & entry \\ Meek & mild & entry \\ \rowstyle{\itshape} Strange & and & italic \\ Meek & mild & entry \\ \hline \end{tabular}
The array package works with several other
tabular
-like environments from other packages (for
example longtable
), but unfortunately this trick won’t
always work.
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