How to get better looking tables from LaTeX 

Date:          Thurs, Jun 10 1993 4:31 pm
Groups:        comp.text.tex
> 3) How about being able to shade an entire box in the table? This would be
> useful on occasion for highlighting titles of columns.

colortab.tex / colortab.sty contains macros for coloring/shading lines or cells in tables. But doesn't actually contain any color commands, but instead is meant to adaptable to anybody's color macros. You can use PSTricks, but some non-PostScript drivers also support color, and you can use it with these drivers as well.

I am appending the latest version.

Timothy Van Zandt

How to get better looking tables from LaTeX 

>2) It would be nice to be able to have a \hline which produced a much wider
>line, possibly shaded rather than full black.

There's an article by Anita Hoover in the next TTN showing how to do this.

>4) How about a double line all around the table, with the correct joins where
>horizontal and vertical lines meet? Similarly for double lines within the
>table.

Put it inside an fbox, twice.

Jeremy Gibbons