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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label wholerow</title>
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<h3>How to change a whole row of a table</h3>
<p/>Each cell of a table is set in a box, so that a change of font style
(or whatever) only lasts to the end of the cell.  If one has a
many-celled table, or a long one which needs lots of rows emphasising,
putting a font style change command in every cell will be impossibly
tedious.
<p/>With the <i>array</i> package, you can define column modifiers
which will change the font style for a whole <em>column</em>.  However,
with a bit of subtlety, one can make such modifiers affect rows rather
than columns.  So, we set things up by:
<blockquote>

<pre>
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{$}{&gt;{\global\let\currentrowstyle\relax}}
\newcolumntype{^}{&gt;{\currentrowstyle}}
\newcommand{\rowstyle}[1]{\gdef\currentrowstyle{#1}%
  #1\ignorespaces
}
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</blockquote><p>
Now, we put &lsquo;<code>$</code>&rsquo; before the first column specifier; and we
put &lsquo;<code>textasciicircum</code>&rsquo;
before the modifiers of subsequent ones.  We then use <code>\</code><code>rowstyle</code> at
the start of each row we want to modify:
<blockquote>
<pre>
\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}
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</blockquote><p>
The <i>array</i> package works with several other
<code>tabular</code>-like environments from other packages (for
example <code>longtable</code>), but unfortunately this trick won&rsquo;t
always work.
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