CTAN update: tabu (v 2.0)

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Mon Jan 17 23:51:09 CET 2011


the daemon's after me, and me all tired, as i am:

> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: tabu                               (v 2.0)
> Author's name: Florent CHERVET
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tabu
> Summary description: Flexible LaTeX tabulars
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>        New in version 2.0
> 
> ** Vertical spacing adjustments **
> 
> . Fixed vertical spaces:
>   \extrarowheight \extrarowdepth 
>    and \extrarowsep to set both in one shot
> 
> . Dynamic vertical spaces:
>   \abovetabulinesep \belowtabulinesep
>    and \tabulinesep to set both in one shot
> 
> ** Horizontal lines **
> . User defined line style as in:
>     \tabulinestyle{ myline = 1pt on2pt blue }
>   can now be used in the | specifier:  |[myline]
> 
> . |[...] can now be used also inside the preamble
>   of \multicolumn (only inside tabu environment)
> 
> ** Bug fixed / improvements **
> . Fixed a bug in \tabu at prepnexttok 
>         Again!!! Difficult case!
> 
> . Improved compatibility with cellspace.
>   But this is far better to use the new spacing commands
>   \tabulinesep   and/or  \extrarowsep.
> 
> 
> 
> You can see an example of interfaces-TikZ \papergraduate
> command in tabu documentation, page 13.
> 
> Any feedback is appreciated !

thanks for the upload (the above looks like lots of work...).

i've installed the update and updated the catalogue repository.

> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/tabu.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabu/

The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team




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