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Re: Turning off default rules associated with TableHeadings?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg92768] Re: Turning off default rules associated with TableHeadings?
• From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
• Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:15:57 -0400 (EDT)
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• Reply-to: HPR <read at math.uvm.edu>

AES wrote:
> Simple option to turn off (forever!) the default horizontal and vertical 
> rules associated with the TableHeadings option -- the ones that got 
> added with M6?
> 
> [I realize this is a really trivial niggle, but I also really dislike 
> the look of those rules in Tables -- especially since the default 
> spacing between the horizontal top rule and the first row of the table 
> is badly chosen, at least for my eye.]

Have you tried using Grid? It is far more flexible than TableForm ever 
was, and easy to format however you like.

I don't even show my students TableForm anymore, we use Grid for 
displaying nice tables.


-- 
Helen Read
University of Vermont