Hello,

In my quest for tables similar to what the 'booktabs' package in LaTeX
produces, I have run into a problem: something
like '\bTABLE[distance=7.5pt]' will give me the sought for gaps in
horizontal lines, but I have trouble implementing an uninterrupted topframe
for the first and bottomframe for the last row. Is there any way of
overriding the 'distance' parameter locally, so that for example the
topframe of the first (header) row is uninterrupted, while the bottomframe
comes with the 'distance' dictated gaps? For clarification see the attached
file. While the gaps are desired for 'bottomframe' of the header row(s),
the 'topframe' should be continuous. It would be even more marvelous if I
could modify bottomframe- and topframe-rule thickness independently ... 

A recent proposal on this list to achieve the desired effect involved
putting the whole table into a frame and displaying it's top- and
bottomframe. However, that doesn't work for tables to be split over
multiple pages and I'm hunting for the most generic of all mechanisms ...

Thanks for any thoughts on this,

Joh