[Tugindia] thicker table borders

[E. Krishnan]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:

> If I have table 

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> How do I make only the outer borders thicker/bolder?  say with a
> thickness of 1pt ?

A quick solution  would be to enclose the whole table in an "fbox" with 
the desired thickness for the frames. For example

	\setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt}
	\setlength{\fboxrule}{0.6pt}
	\fbox{%	
	\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
  	\hline
   	11 & 12 & 13\\
  	\hline
  	21 & 22 & 23\\
  	\hline
  	31 & 32 & 33\\
  	\hline
  	\end{tabular}}

Note that the default thickness of lines in a table is 0.4pt and hence 
the thickness of the frame is set to 0.6pt to make the total width 1pt.

-- 
Krishnan