Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Changing table row spacing in booktabs/longtable

[matlock]

I'd like to be able to add spacing between all of the rows while still using the booktabs and longtable packages. It seems like the tabls package would allow me to do this with

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\setlength\tablinesep{10pt}

but inclusion of the tabls package causes tons of errors when used with the following example.

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{booktabs,longtable}

\begin{document}

\begin{longtable}{l p{0.35\textwidth} @{\hspace{2em}} p{0.375\textwidth}}
% first page's table head
\toprule
ISBN & Title & Description \\
\midrule
\endfirsthead
9780201362992 & The \LaTeX\ Companion & A very helpful book about \LaTeX\ written by the developers of many widely-used packages. \\
9780201134476 & Computers and Typesetting, Vol. A: The \TeX book & Written by The Man Himself (Don K.). \\
9780471309321 & Classical Electrodynamics (3rd. Ed.) & One of these is not like the others. \\
\bottomrule
\end{longtable}

\end{document}

Having to write \\[\defaultaddspace] at the end of each line is clearly a gross solution, so that's out.

It occurs to me that I could do something like

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\newcommand\eor{\\ \addlinespace[10pt]}

and end all lines except for the last one with \eor instead of \\ (eor = end of row), but that seems inelegant.

By the way, is there a way to write code inline on this board, or am I better off just leaving small code fragments in plain text?

[localghost]

The quite new tabu package offers a solution with the length \tabulinesep. You can modify it as desired.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{booktabs,longtable,tabu}

\setlength{\tabulinesep}{3pt}

\begin{document}
  \begin{longtabu}{l p{0.35\textwidth} @{\hspace{2em}} p{0.375\textwidth}}\toprule
    % first page's table head
    ISBN & Title & Description \\ \midrule
    \endfirsthead
    9780201362992 & The \LaTeX\ Companion & A very helpful book about \LaTeX\ written by the developers of many widely-used packages. \\
    9780201134476 & Computers and Typesetting, Vol. A: The \TeX book & Written by The Man Himself (Don K.). \\
    9780471309321 & Classical Electrodynamics (3rd. Ed.) & One of these is not like the others. \\ \bottomrule
  \end{longtabu}
\end{document}

Note that the longtable package needs to be loaded explicitly.


Thorsten