Motivation LaTeX offers great functionality to create professionally looking tables. The default column types (left-aligned l; center-aligned c; and right-aligned r) adjust to the text size, rather than wrapping text automatically. This works well as long as the content in each cell is short and of similar length. However, often you want to display several … [Read more…]
Series overview Introduction to colors The colortbl package The xcolor package The colortab package 4. The colortab package The colortab package is another package to color table cells and rules (lines). It is the only alternative to colortbl/xcolor, as xcolor requires colortbl. It is a somewhat complicated package that tends to be buggy. Also, … [Read more…]
Series overview Introduction to colors The colortbl package The xcolor package The colortab package 3. The xcolor package While coloring tables, the xcolor package provides the same commands as <a href="https://www.ctan.org/pkg/colortbl">colortbl</a>. The reason is that loading the xcolor package with the table option loads the colortbl package in the background. On top to the … [Read more…]
Series overview Introduction to colors The colortbl package The xcolor package The colortab package 1. Introduction to colors Colors constitute the human visual interpretation of light waves of different wavelengths. Color models There exist several models to represent colors. We will examine the three that are provided by the <a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/color" target="_blank" rel="noopener">color</a> … [Read more…]
Tables are great to visualize data in a structured way. Unfortunately, too often I see tables which are cluttered and difficult to read and interpret. It takes little to make them more presentable and easier to read. This post advocates tidy and lean tables, to the benefit of the reader. 1. Add a caption which … [Read more…]