Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ vertical separator line with tabularx

[carol]

Hi,
The vertical separator line specified by | doesn't seem to be end-to-end with respect to horizontal lines. An example is provided below. Where does the problem come from?

thanks

PS. the first column on right is extra but doesn't disturb the demonstration.

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\documentclass[12pt,twoside,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{booktabs,tabularx}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[h]
{\tiny
 \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{|c|c|c|}
\toprule
\addlinespace
h16&h2&h3\\\addlinespace\hline\hline
\addlinespace
r1&2c&1c\\\addlinespace\hline

r2&c11&c22\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
}
\end{table}

\end{document}

[localghost]

The booktabs package doesn't like vertical lines because it tries to produce readable tables without them.


Best regards
Thorsten

[carol]

I removed booktabs from the list of packages but I got the following error:

Undefined control sequence \end{tabularx}

[localghost]

Removing the package was no good idea. Omitting the vertical lines is the better one. The error is no surprise since your are using commands from booktabs in your table.

[carol]

All right. But how to separate the cells if I want to have cell-based table?

[localghost]

Keep the vertical lines and don't use booktabs.

[carol]

So since tabularx doesn't work without booktabs, I have no choice except using tabular. How to replace \toprule, \midrule, \bottomrule that are used with tabularx to have solid thick line?

Cheers,

[localghost]

So since tabularx doesn't work without booktabs, I have no choice except using tabular. [...]

Nobody claimed that. But you are not using the column features of tabularx in your example. A simple tabular* environment would do also.

How to replace \toprule, \midrule, \bottomrule that are used with tabularx to have solid thick line? [...]

Just use the features for horizontal lines of the standard tabular environment.

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside,english]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont={bf,sf},tableposition=top]{caption}

\begin{document}
  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.2}
    \caption{Table caption}\label{tab:table}
    \centering
    \tiny
    \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}\hline
      h16 & h2 & h3 \\\hline\hline
      r1 & 2c & 1c \\\hline
      r2 & c11 & c22\\\hline
   \end{tabular}
  \end{table}
\end{document}

You can control the line width by modifying the length \arrayrulewidth. You could also try the hhline package.