I need to start a project where many tables will be needed. I was going to use tabu, since it seems a rather complete package for typesetting tables.  However, on this site (which I trust) I read that tabu is no longer maintained and should not be used.   Is there a definite answer on this? Being in the "planning" phase, should I discard tabu and consider something else?  thanks
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When I stumbled upon tabu some time ago it looked quite interesting on a first glance and I intended to learn more about it when I have the time. But, in the comments section of  posted on the new german question and answer site texwelt.de Herbert Voß wrote that the tabu package is obsolete in its current version (thereby citing the package author) and is not actively maintained anymore. What are the implications for the usability of the package? Should I refrain from investing time to learn tabu and consider some other packages for the creation of tables instead?
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Lets say I have a table to hold Tasks and then I have a table to hold Sub Tasks, is it better to break Tasks and Sub Tasks into separate tables or keep them both in the same table with a possible ParentId column.  What if a Parent Task could also be a Sub Task, does this change the design?
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I have 5 tables and a section after them. After creation of an output file I have two tables on one page, then a section and last 3 tables on next page.  What I want to achieve is to put tables and section below them.  \begin{table}[ht]\footnotesize \centering \begin{tabular}{|ll|} ...... \end{tabular} \label{tab:result} \end{table}  \section{Section below tables}
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My table is going out of the page. Please give me a solution?  \begin{table}[] \centering \caption{My caption} \label{my-label} \begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|} \hline Ref      &amp; \multicolumn{6}{l|}{Model Used}        &amp; Approach                                   &amp; Limitation                                                                                                       &amp; Goal                                                                                                             \\ \hline          &amp; MBTI &amp; FFM &amp; BFI &amp; KTS &amp; BTR &amp; NEO-FFI &amp; \multicolumn{3}{l|}{}                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            \\ \hline {[}10{]} &amp;      &amp;     &amp;     &amp;     &amp;     &amp;         &amp; Interactive personality profiling appraoch &amp; \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}l@{}}Test were based on subjective evidences which\\ may lead to uncertainty.\end{tabular} &amp; \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}l@{}}In order to propose a structure for effective\\ software team structure.\end{tabular} \\ \hline          &amp;      &amp;     &amp;     &amp;     &amp;     &amp;         &amp;                                            &amp;                                                                                                                  &amp;                                                                                                                  \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table}
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I am new to database design. I am designing a database for an E-commerce website, there are a lot of products to be updated, but while designing for product specification table I do not understand whether I need specify all the specifications in a table or do I need to use different tables for different products?  For example, consider the products Mobile and book, each of these having unique specifications (such as color,size, cost, model for mobile and title, ISBN, author, cost, year_of_publication, etc. for book), if it is only less number of products then it is possible for me to design, but when there is a thousands of products, it takes a lot of time.  Can anyone tell me how to design my database to manage this situation?
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I'm not really a programmer but I'm quite interested in learning how to use LaTeX/TeX. I've looked it up on Wikipedia and scanned through it and the documents created through this way of editing is just  beautiful. Formulas are also available within it too, so writing math thesis or physics papers would be amazing.   Is this system just for programmers, or can normal people use it too? (I'm mainly a designer, so I usually edit it in Word or InDesign.)
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I'm trying to choose the positions of my tables but I can't figure out the difference between [H] and [h]. I've seen both advised over my search. If I use [h] the row spacing is different than [H] use.
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Do you know a good source to learn how to design SQL solutions?  Beyond the basic language syntax, I'm looking for something to help me understand:   What tables to build and how to link them How to design for different scales (small client APP to a huge distributed website) How to write effective / efficient  / elegant SQL queries
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It seems to be the  that tables should not be used for layout in HTML.   Why?  I have never (or rarely to be honest) seen good arguments for this. The usual answers are:   It's good to But this is a fallacious argument; . I guess it's true that using the table element for layout has little to do with tabular data. So what? Does my boss care? Do my users care?Perhaps me or my fellow developers who have to maintain a web page care... Is a table less maintainable? I think using a table is  than using divs and CSS.By the way... why is using a div or a span good separation of content from layout and a table not? Getting a good layout with only divs often requires a lot of nested divs. Readability of the codeI think it's the other way around. Most people understand HTML, few understand CSS. It's better for SEO not to use tablesWhy? Can anybody show some evidence that it is? Or a statement from Google that tables are discouraged from an SEO perspective? Tables are slower.An extra tbody element has to be inserted. This is peanuts for modern web browsers. Show me some benchmarks where the use of a table significantly slows down a page. A layout overhaul is easier without tables, see .Most web sites that need an upgrade need new content (HTML) as well. Scenarios where a new version of a web site only needs a new CSS file are not very likely. Zen Garden is a nice web site, but a bit theoretical. Not to mention its  of CSS.   I am really interested in good arguments to use divs + CSS instead of tables.
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I have a pretty simple table that needs to span multiple pages. This seems like a job for either the / package or the  package.   The voting on the answers to this  suggest that longtable is the preferred package, yet xtab is much newer and has been revised since that question was asked.  What are the differences between xtab and longtable and when is one preferable to the other?
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Ubuntu Software used to provide Pinta, KolourPaint, Audacity, and others, but they are no longer available there. I have to use apt to install them.   Why has Ubuntu Software 3.20.5 stopped providing applications that it used to?  Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu Software Center 3.20.5  Thanks in advance for your help!
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I do some caricature, cartoons and illustrations, as hobby. I believe that I am okay'ish with pen and paper, but recently decided to go digital.  Given my budget, and a quick assessment of needs and reviews of various graphic tablets, I am thinking of ordering the Wacom Bamboo One CTE 660 Pen Tablet which as per specs is a wide-format 8.5"x5.5" entry-level tablet.  During my research I've found that I could potentially use it with Inkscape, since I am not in a position to make an investment in professional software. Although I am not aware of the real potential of Inkscape for my purpose. I think I can mostly make-do with vector-graphics, and occasionally embed bit-maps (s.a. for scene background).  My question is -   Since the table is of a particular size, which is roughly half or sometimes even a quarter of the paper size I use normally, would the experience be very different ? Given that I'd be using vector graphics, can I assume that "free-hand drawn" images will scale-up nicely? What are the other "free" (as in beer) alternatives for my purpose/use-case? Ideally, I'd prefer something that is not very resource hungry, as my PC isn't very powerful (yeah, living with a lot of constraints!).   Edit:  Finally I went ahead and got myself a Wacom Bamboo One 'Medium' (6x9) tablet. It is the entry-level product, but based on my first day experience, I think it is quite nice. I wasn't expecting anything pro-grade, but it seems to be pretty adequate. Build quality seems reassuring (i.e. not cheap, flaky plastic), is quite sleek, and pretty responsive. It worked out of the box. Without drivers, on Win 7, it worked as a mouse right-away. Worked in MS-Paint as expected (as a pen). On installing drivers and software, I got pressure-sensitivity and something called Bamboo-dock. It seems like a Widget-container, i.e. you can download applications online... pretty much the same crop that you see on Firefox, Opera, Chrome -- but seemingly hand-picked, and pretty relevant to usage with a pen. I like SumoPaint, which I've used before, and is not bad for decent drawings / illustrations.  Getting used to Pen, as a navigation / desktop-pointer tool, takes some getting used to. I think touch-phones and touch-pads have already mentally tuned us to direct pointing, but those devices have the display and touch-sensor aligned. When you are using the display and touch disjointed, it feels a bit odd, but not bad.  Thanks all for your comments.
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I'd like to be able to add or remove some of the standard tabs on the Tools panel:    because if I shrink the tab area, the tab names become unreadable:    So, is there a way to remove some of the tabs that I never use?
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I'm interested to know what would be best the option from a UX perspective. I have a table in which i need to decide if i should edit each row with inline editing where you can click on each item in the row and edit seperately or all at once with a modal popup.
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I am trying to align the columns of multiple tables.  I know I can use p column format to fix column widths but I would prefer that TeX automatically figure out the widths for me.  I was hoping to:    output one table with all rows of each subsequent table so that the column widths of the combined table would be automatically good for all the subsequent tables  then output each subsequent table using the same settings and  figure out some way in which the first combined table could be generated but not visible.   Here is my attempt.  The first combined table uses \savetabu to save the settings and then each subsequent table uses \usetabu to retrieve them.  Unfortunately this does not work as I had hoped.  The columns do not line up as the output below (after the code) shows. Does anyone have a method of accomplishing this?  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{tabu} \begin{document}  Output both tables together as one table and then output each individual table.  We had hoped that this would cause the subsequent tables to be the same width as the first since the first contains all columns of the subsequent tables but it seems that that does not work.  \begin{center} \begin{tabu}{ll}\savetabu{mytabu2} 1 &amp; 2 \\ 3 &amp; 4 \\ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz &amp; 10 \\ 5 &amp; 6 \\ \end{tabu} \end{center}  \begin{center} \begin{tabu}{\usetabu{mytabu2}} 1 &amp; 2 \\ 3 &amp; 4 \\ \end{tabu} \end{center}  \begin{center} \begin{tabu}{\usetabu{mytabu2}} abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz &amp; 10 \\ 5 &amp; 6 \\ \end{tabu} \end{center}  \end{document}   Here is the output:
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I'm teaching web development to beginners, and it would be useful to show them the basics in design, meaning using a graphic design package to come up with a layout, before turning it into code.   To be clear, I want something for creating the "look and feel" of a page, not the layout. I don't mean prototyping tools. There was some confusion about this, and the meaning of my original question was changed, I just changed it back, half a day later.  The html and css itself will be hand-written.  I need something which is freely available, or really cheap. It can be a program designed for beginners, or a broader program with a "beginners mode", or a less intimidating interface for new users.  Is there software which fits this description?
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I have a content type with 20 different fields.   Now the project requirement changed and I dont need 15 fields of them. So I removed all those unwanted 15fields from content type.   But the database is still holding all the 15 tables and also the revision table, Why? What happens if I remove it?  I feel like having these many unused tables in database might impact the performance. Will it really have impact on the performance?