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From: Denis Maier <denis.maier.lists@mailbox.org>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: More table questions
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:26:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rkdmma$nfs$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FEB8369-C3CD-48EC-8153-456BF0B6A5F5@fiee.net>

Am 22.09.2020 um 16:31 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:

> 
> tabulate as far as it fits your needs, then natural tables (Hans dixit in 2019).
> 

That's in fact part of the question: I can not easily tell what the 
particular shortcomings are. As this is for an XML setup that supposed 
for more than one product, I have to make some design decisions right at 
the beginning and I won't be able to make ad hoc adjustments.

> 
> In tabulate you have several kinds of horizontal lines (\HL, \FL, \ML, \LL), but you need to set them and define their width individually.
> 
> IMO the different line widths of booktabs are very oldfashioned. Try to avoid lines as far as possible, and then use them unobtrusively.
> Depending on your product (black printing, CMYK printing, screen only) you can use light colors, but be aware that thin, rasterized lines look jagged, while you can e.g. use 100% cyan even in 0.25pt, if the resolution of the press (offset/digital) works with such thin lines.
> 
> Also don’t use indented table lines if you don’t use vertical lines (and you should usually avoid those).

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll keep that in mind. As said before, I 
don't really regularly use tables so I don't have much experience here.

Best,
Denis

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-22 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-22  8:03 Denis Maier
2020-09-22 14:31 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-09-22 20:26   ` Denis Maier [this message]
2020-09-22 18:55 ` Aditya Mahajan
2020-09-22 19:34   ` Peter Münster
2020-09-22 20:02     ` Aditya Mahajan
2020-09-22 20:18   ` Denis Maier

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