Date:          Sun, Jul 8 2001 4:37 pm
Groups:        comp.text.tex

> i can background shade a row of text with the following sequence:
>   \colorbox[gray]{0.90}{\makebox[\textwidth][l]{#1}}

> how can i do that for a row of a tabular-table?

Use the colortbl package. It has a \rowcolor command.

Piet van Oostrum