Directory macros/latex/contrib/tabu
tabu
Original Tabu README
tabu - Flexible LaTeX tabulars
tabu provides a single environment: tabu designed to make all kind of tabulars provided that they do not split accross pages.
tabu is based on array.sty and requires no other package. tabu does not modify array.sty nor the classes of tokens.
Starting from version 1.5, longtabu is provided: based on longtable, longtabu allows tabulars to stretch out on several pages.
tabu can be used in place of tabular, tabular and tabularx X columns in tabu can be specified with a width coefficient the alignement (l,r,c,j) the column type (p,m,b) or even $.
tabu also works in math mode and its name remains tabu. tabu can contain any type of tabular, array, tabularx tabu can be put inside tabular, array, tabularx, tabular
begin{tabu} is like tabular if the preamble has no X column begin{tabu} to <dimen> specifies the target width begin{tabu} spread <dimen> enlarge the natural width
tabu with X columns has a default target if not specified (usefull for nested tabus + compatibility with linegoal)
tabu provides facilities to change the font and the alignment in one row (rowfont), save and restore the preamble and the tabular parameters (savetabu, usetabu, preamble).
tabu provides other facilities to align numbers in X columns draw lines with color, dashed or even leaders. Those facilities are provided for convenience: they work as long as the tabu preamble does not contain "too special tokens".
tabu has been tested successfully with many packages related to tabulars, cells, alignment...
Emergency updates to the LaTeX tabu package
The original author of tabu appears out of contact, and tabu had not been updated for several years, finally becoming unusable in 2019 as updates to other packages mean some of its patched code did not work as intended.
The package is not being actively maintained however any major required fixes may be reported to the https://github.com/tabu-fixed/tabu repository and volunteers there (currently members of the LaTeX3 Team) will attempt to update the package with any fixes required.
Issues from Stackexchange
Fixed in release 2.9
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/469282/xcolor-breaking-and-align-environments-inside-tabu
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/468948/longtabu-and-color-compatibility
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/430973/tabu-m-column-vertical-alignment-not-working-after-package-updates (Note that this is only a temporary fix reverting the change in array package m column implementation. A more complete fix would be to adapt tabu code to the new array.)
Not yet handled
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/201510/what-is-the-difference-between-and-linebreak-in-cfoot
Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (1.6M).
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 |
| Repository | https://github.com/tabu-issues-for-future-maintainer/tabu |
| Version | 2.9 2019-01-11 |
| Licenses | The LaTeX Project Public License 1.3 |
| Copyright | 2010 Florent Chervet |
| Maintainer | Florent Chervet (inactive) |
| Contained in | TeX Live as tabu MiKTeX as tabu |
| Topics | Table Table long |
