Am 22.09.2020 um 16:31 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:
tabulate as far as it fits your needs, then natural tables (Hans dixit in 2019).
That's in fact part of the question: I can not easily tell what the particular shortcomings are. As this is for an XML setup that supposed for more than one product, I have to make some design decisions right at the beginning and I won't be able to make ad hoc adjustments.
In tabulate you have several kinds of horizontal lines (\HL, \FL, \ML, \LL), but you need to set them and define their width individually.
IMO the different line widths of booktabs are very oldfashioned. Try to avoid lines as far as possible, and then use them unobtrusively. Depending on your product (black printing, CMYK printing, screen only) you can use light colors, but be aware that thin, rasterized lines look jagged, while you can e.g. use 100% cyan even in 0.25pt, if the resolution of the press (offset/digital) works with such thin lines.
Also don’t use indented table lines if you don’t use vertical lines (and you should usually avoid those).
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll keep that in mind. As said before, I don't really regularly use tables so I don't have much experience here. Best, Denis