new ctan package: tabu

Date: November 12, 2010 11:07:38 AM CET

the daemon tells me (and i eventually respond): > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: tabu > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > tabu - Flexible LaTeX tabulars > > tabu enhances tabular, array and tabularx > A single environment: tabu for both text and math mode > X columns with optional modifiers for width and alignment > > No change of array.sty to ensure perfect compatibility. thanks for the upload; i have installed the package, and made an entry for it in 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 not appear on the web until some time tonight. NOTE: this package was submitted some days ago. while there is no doubt of its quality, the ctan team were uneasy about its name; we therefore delayed installation while we tried to think of an alternative ... and we failed, so i have now installed. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

tabu – Flexible LaTeX tabulars

The package provides an environment, tabu, which will make any sort of tabular (that doesn’t need to split across pages), and an environment longtabu which provides the facilities of tabu in a modified longtable environment. (Note that this latter offers an enhancement of ltxtable.)

The package requires the array package, and needs e-TeX to run (since array.sty is present in every conforming distribution of LaTeX, and since every publicly available LaTeX format is built using e-TeX, the requirements are provided by default on any reasonable system). The package also requires xcolor for coloured rules in tables, and colortbl for coloured cells. The longtabu environment further requires that longtable be loaded. The package itself does not load any of these packages for the user.

The tabu environment may be used in place of tabular, tabular* and tabularx environments, as well as the array environment in maths mode. It overloads tabularx’s X-column specification, allowing a width specification, alignment (l, r, c and j) and column type indication (p, m and b).

\begin{tabu} to <dimen> specifies a target width, and \begin{tabu} spread <dimen> enlarges the environment’s “natural” width.

Package	tabu
Version	2.9 2019-01-11
Copyright	2010 Florent Chervet
Maintainer	Florent Chervet (inactive)

new ctan package: tabu

tabu – Flexible LaTeX tabulars

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