             The booktabstabular package
          Streamlining the booktabs package


File:       README
Author:     Moritz R. Schäfer


DESCRIPTION
===========

This package provides the wrapper environments booktabstabular and
booktabstabular* around tabular and tabular* that automatically apply the
booktabs style to tables. It automatically inserts a toprule at the beginning
of the table, bottomrule at the end, and locally remap the legacy \hline and
\cline commands to their booktabs equivalents midrule and cmidrule. It also
provides commands to temporarily override the standard tabular and tabular*
environments so that existing documents can opt into this behaviour without
rewriting each table.

Copyright:  (C) 2026--2026 Moritz R. Schäfer
Licence:    lppl1.3c

FILES IN DISTRIBUTION
=====================

   BASE DISTRIBUTION:

      README               This file.
      booktabstabular.ins  Package installation file.
      booktabstabular.dtx  Package source file.

      booktabstabular.sty  Package style file. It was produced by
                           executing "latex booktabstabular.ins".

   DOCUMENTATION:

      booktabstabular.pdf  User manual for booktabstabular package. It was
                           produced by executing:
                              latexmk -pdf booktabstabular.dtx

BASIC INSTALLATION
====================

   The minimum requirement to use the package is to have
   booktabstabular.sty in a directory where TeX can find it.

   For a basic installation on a TDS compliant system, move the
   following files to the following directories:

     <texmf>/tex/latex/booktabstabular/
        booktabstabular.sty

     <texmf>/source/latex/booktabstabular/
         booktabstabular.ins
         booktabstabular.dtx

     <texmf>/doc/latex/booktabstabular/
         README
         booktabstabular.pdf
