General ⇒ Setting text (not background) color for an entire table row?

[oddhack]

Is there any equivalent to \rowcolor that will let me set the text color for an entire table row with a single command? It gets awfully tedious to type

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    \color{blah} field1 & \color{blah} field2 & ... \color{blah} fieldN \\

but I haven't found any way to scope \color at the entire row level.

[Annabel]

I guess the colortbl package is the right one for you:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ ... /colortbl/

[oddhack]

I guess the colortbl package is the right one for you:

Thanks, but could you be more specific as to what part of colortbl? I don't see any commands in there that appear to control text color at the entire row level.

[Annabel]

What do you mean? There is an example in the manual:

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\begin{tabular}{|l|c|}
\rowcolor[gray]{.9}
one&two\\
\rowcolor[gray]{.5}
three&four
\end{tabular}

You should be able to change gray into whatever colour you like (have a look at the PDF).

[oddhack]

What do you mean? There is an example in the manual:
...
You should be able to change gray into whatever colour you like (have a look at the PDF).

I am looking at it and the text color is black in both rows. It is only the background color that's affected by the \rowcolor (unless you're looking at some different PDF - I'm on page 5 of this colortbl.pdf.

[Annabel]

I'm really really sorry. I had not carefully read the original question and thread title.