Mrthfx

I realise that the booktabs package does not want me to use vertical lines in my tables. However, I like vertical lines in my tables. Therefore, I am hoping there is a workaround to a problem that booktabs clearly does not think should even be an issue.

Here is my table:

Is it possible to join all the vertical lines?

Here is the code:

begin{table}[h]

begin{centering}

scalebox{.8}

small

{begin{tabular}{| c | l | c c c |}

hline

{bf HD Level}  &           &   &   &   \

midrule[2pt]

multirow{2}*{1} & {it Rep-tile}:  & ${1,2}$ & ${1,3}$ & ${2,3}$ \

cmidrule{2-5}

        & {it Encoding}:       & 1     & 2         & 3 \

midrule[2pt]

multirow{2}*{2} & {it Rep-tile}:  & ${2}$   & ${3}$   & \

cmidrule{2-5}

        & {it Encoding}:   & 1     & 2     & \

hline

end{tabular}}

caption{smallbf Bla bla}

label{tab:SMuTexEncoding}

end{centering}

end{table}

Many thanks.

You can have thick hlines with the makecell package and its Xhline{width} and Xcline{col1-col2}{width} commands. You can replace the vertical spacing added by booktabs around horizontal rules (that's responsible for non joining vertical rules) with the cellspace package; it lets you define minimal vertical spacingabove and below cells of a given column, prefixing its specifier with the letter S.

I also took the opportunity to define a set command, based on an example in the documentation of the mathtools package, that produces better horizontal spacing and variable-sized braces

documentclass{article}

usepackage{makecell}

usepackage{multirow}

usepackage{hhline}

usepackage{cellspace}

setlengthcellspacetoplimit{5pt}

setlengthcellspacebottomlimit{5pt}

usepackage{mathtools}

DeclarePairedDelimiterXset[1]{}{nonscript,#1nonscript,}



begin{document}



begin{table}[!htb]

centering

small

begin{tabular}{| Sc | >{itshape}l | Sc c c |}

hline

{bfseries HD Level} & & & & \

Xhline{2pt}

multirow{2}{*}{1} & Rep-tile: & $set{1,2}$ & $set{1,3}$ & $set{2,3}$ \

cline{2-5}

        & Encoding:    & 1 & 2 & 3 \

Xhline{2pt}

multirow{2}{*}{2} & Rep-tile: & $set{2}$ & $set{3}$ & \

cline{2-5}

        & Encoding: & 1 & 2 & \

hline

end{tabular}

caption{smallbf Bla bla}

label{tab:SMuTexEncoding}

end{table}



end{document}

If you want to have coloured rules, it's more complelex: the arrayrulecolor command (from the colortbl package) doesn't work. A workaround consistsin using the hhline package, setting arrayrulewidth to 0pt and colouring the interrule space of a double rule. Demo:

begin{table}[!htb]

centering

smallarrayrulecolor{red}

begin{tabular}{| Sc | >{itshape}l | Sc c c |}

hline

{bfseries HD Level} & & & & \

Xhline{2pt}

multirow{2}{*}{1} & Rep-tile: & $set{1,2}$ & $set{1,3}$ & $set{2,3}$ \

cline{2-5}

        & Encoding:    & 1 & 2 & 3 \

Xhline{2pt}

multirow{2}{*}{2} & Rep-tile: & $set{2}$ & $set{3}$ & \

cline{2-5}

        & Encoding: & 1 & 2 & \

hhline{>{arrayrulewidth = 0ptdoublerulesep = 2pt doublerulesepcolor{red}}=====}

end{tabular}

caption{smallbf Bla bla}

label{tab:SMuTexEncoding}

end{table}

I would never do what I did in the first table, but it is your choice, not mine. I just offer a much nicer alternative. However, please:

• Do not use it and bf: Does it matter if I use textit or it, bfseries or bf, etc
  


• Do not manually modify the size of the table nor the style of the caption, it's not semantic. What if you later decide that the captions should not be bold, but you've already add bfseries to 50 captions? Are you going to remove them by hand? Well, you'll have to. Or you use packages that modify the styles globally. (Both things can be found on this website, however, simply look into the documentation of packages caption and float.)


• Do not specify [h] float placement alone, you can expect bad things happening.


• 
  centering is not an environment, it is a command: centering.


• Your scalebox has no effect whatsoever since the thing you scale is the macro small, which doesn't output anything. Use either scalebox or small (or rather none of them).

documentclass{article}



usepackage{array}

newcolumntype{C}{>{rule[-1.5ex]{0pt}{4.5ex}}c}



makeatletter

defHline{% a thicker hline

  noalign{ifnum0=`}fihrule @height 1pt futurelet

   reserved@a@xhline}

makeatother



usepackage{booktabs}

newcommandMidrule{midrule[heavyrulewidth]}



begin{document}



begin{table}

centering

begin{tabular}{| c | l @{qquad} | c c C |}

Hline

  bfseries HD Level  &&&&\

hline

  1 & itshape Rep-tile:  & ${1,2}$ & ${1,3}$ & ${2,3}$ \

cline{2-5}

    & itshape Encoding: & 1       & 2       & 3 \

Hline

  2 & itshape Rep-tile: & ${2}$ & ${3}$ & \

cline{2-5}

    & itshape Encoding: & 1       & 2       & \

Hline

end{tabular}

caption{Bla bla}

label{tab:SMuTexEncoding}

end{table}





begin{table}

centering

begin{tabular}{ c >{itshape}l c c c }toprule

bfseries HD Level\Midrule

1 & Rep-tile: & ${1,2}$ & ${1,3}$ & ${2,3}$ \cmidrule{2-5}

  & Encoding: & 1         & 2         & 3 \Midrule

2 & Rep-tile: & ${2}$   & ${3}$   & \cmidrule{2-5}

  & Encoding: & 1         & 2         & \bottomrule

end{tabular}

caption{Bla bla}

label{tab:SMuTexEncoding}

end{table}



end{document}

use cline{i-j} instead of hline