Re: SetOptions[TableForm] doesn't seem to work?
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- Subject: [mg89269] Re: SetOptions[TableForm] doesn't seem to work?
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 03:58:48 -0400 (EDT)
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- Reply-to: HPR <read at math.uvm.edu>
AES wrote:
> I'm puzzled as to why
>
> SetOptions[TableForm,TableSpacing->{1,5}]
>
> doesn't seem to have the desired effect on tables created in subsequent
> cells using
>
> TableForm[Table[ --- ]]
>
> even though Options[TableForm] shows the TableSpacing as having been
> increased, and even though copying and pasting the TableSpacing->{1,5}
> string into the appropriate place in these subsequent TableForm[] cells
> produces the desired result.
SetOptions doesn't seem to be working for TableForm at all. In addition
to your example, I tried
SetOptions[TableForm,TableDirections->Row]
to no effect, though putting TableDirections->Row into a TableForm[]
does work.
I have gone over completely to Grid since v.6, though, and probably
haven't used TableForm in more than a year. Grid is much more flexible
than TableForm, and I haven't found any need for TableForm now that Grid
is available.
My only complaint about Grid is the lack of something analogous to
TableHeadings. Of course I can Join tables to make my own row or column
labels, but it would be nice (especially for my students, who find
joining tables together a bit of a pain) if Grid itself had optional
RowLabels and ColumnLabels. Still, it has been worth it to switch over
to Grid, and I don't even tell my students about TableForm anymore.
--
Helen Read
University of Vermont