<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><br></div>
see the booktabs package, it also has better spacing above and below its special rules<br>
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the booktabs equivalent to \cline i called \cmidrule and has options to make a separation between two \cmidrule's that would collide.<br>
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/daleif<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Thanks Lars! Here is my example modified using the booktabs package for completeness sake.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></font><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><div>
\documentclass[12pt, pdftex]{article}</div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">\usepackage{multirow}</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">\usepackage{booktabs}</font></span></div>
<div>\begin{document}</div><div>\begin{table}[htp]</div><div>\begin{center}</div><div>{\scriptsize</div><div><br></div><div>\begin{tabular}{lrrrrrrr}</div><div>\hline</div><div> & & \multicolumn{2}{c}{level1} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{level2} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{level3} \\</div>
<div> \cmidrule(lr{.75em}){3-4} \cmidrule(lr{.75em}){5-6} \cmidrule(lr{.75em}){7-8}</div><div>\noalign{\smallskip} </div><div>type & f1 & f2 & f3 & f4 & f5 & f6 & f7 \\ </div><div> \hline</div>
<div>Section & 2.3 & 2.288 & 0.009 & 1.779 & 0.008 & 0.338 & 2.1\\ </div><div> Period & 2.8 & 3.309 & 0.002 & 4.060 & 0.000 & 0.866 & 2.3\\ </div><div> \hline</div>
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