LaTeX forum ⇒ Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Changing Font Type Within Tables

[workerbee]

Hi All,

I was wondering if there was a way to change the Font type within the table environments. For instance, I just wish to change text and data within tables to a Courier New font. Is there a way I can do this with a global command?

Any feedback would be most appreciated, thanks!

[Skazz]

Hi workerbee,

You could declare a new environment, which changes the font and then calls the standard tabular environment. e.g.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\newenvironment{tttabular}[1]%
{\ttfamily \begin{tabular}{#1}}%
{\end{tabular}}

\begin{document}

\begin{tttabular}{c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
 the &brown &fox &jumps &over &the &fence\\
 over &the &fence &the &brown &fox &jumps
\end{tttabular}

\end{document}

I hope I could help!
Skazz

[workerbee]

Thanks, Skazz! It works wonderfully.

I was also wondering if there was a way to do this without having to define a new environment--maybe a similar way in how we can change line spacing in the itemize environment using the enumitem package.

[localghost]

[…] I was also wondering if there was a way to do this without having to define a new environment--maybe a similar way in how we can change line spacing in the itemize environment using the enumitem package.

Answering to a very similar request in a German forum, I stumbled upon a very elegant solution by Axel Sommerfeldt (our fellow member sommerfee).

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,tableposition=top]{caption}

\makeatletter
% Axel Sommerfeldt [2007/01/07]
\providecommand*\AtBeginEnvironment[1]{%
  \@ifundefined{#1}%
    {\@latex@error{Environment #1 undefined}\@ehc
     \@gobble}%
    {\@ifundefined{ABE@env@#1}%
       {\expandafter\let\csname ABE@env@#1\expandafter\endcsname
          \csname #1\endcsname
        \expandafter\let\csname ABE@hook@#1\endcsname\@empty
        \@namedef{#1}{\@nameuse{ABE@hook@#1}\@nameuse{ABE@env@#1}}}%
       {}%
     \expandafter\g@addto@macro\csname ABE@hook@#1\endcsname}}
\@onlypreamble\AtBeginEnvironment
\makeatother

\AtBeginEnvironment{tabular}{\ttfamily}

\begin{document}
  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \caption{A Table}\label{tab:table}
    \centering
    \begin{tabular}{cc}\hline
      Table Head & Table Head \\ \hline
      A Value & A Value \\
      A Value & A Value \\
      A Value & A Value \\ \hline
    \end{tabular}
  \end{table}
\end{document}

This is a universal solution since it works with every environment.


Best regards
Thorsten

[workerbee]

Thanks, Thorsten!

[greyshark]

Simpler solution:

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\AtBeginEnvironment{tabular}{\sffamily} % Changes all tabular environments to sans-serif

[ann43587]

Hi there,

Yes, you can change the font within tables to Courier New (or any other font) using LaTeX. A simple and global way to achieve this is by redefining the table environment's font. Here’s how you can do it:

\usepackage{array} % Needed for table customizations

% Redefine table font globally
\let\oldtabular\tabular
\let\endoldtabular\endtabular
\renewenvironment{tabular}{\bgroup\ttfamily\oldtabular}{\endoldtabular\egroup}

This approach makes all text inside your tabular environments use \ttfamily, which corresponds to a monospaced font like Courier New. If you want to limit it to certain tables or parts of your document, you can wrap only specific instances of tabular with the custom font commands:

\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
\texttt{Example} & \texttt{Text in Courier New} \\
\hline
\end{tabular}

Let me know if you need further assistance or more tailored solutions!