[Tex/LaTex] Format whole row of table as bold

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This appears to be a problem which a few people have had before, but since I've been unable to find a solution which works I thought I should ask again.

I have a LaTeX table of 5 columns width and about 100 rows depth, and I'd like to format whole rows in bold font as opposed to changing each individual cell entry to bold. I don't want every single row to be bold, only a certain selection.

I've tried this solution:

Make first row of table all bold

This doesn't throw up errors, but only changes the first entry of the row to bold font, rather than all the entries in the row. My code is below.

\begin{table}[htbp]
\caption{List of the gamma rays from TS1 and TS2 in the energy region from 140 keV to 655 keV}
\begin{adjustbox}{center}
\begin{tabular}{cccrcc}
\toprule
Energy & Energy & Origin & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Branching} & Av. peak  & Av. Peak \\

Measured & Measured & \&    & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Ratio } & count rate in & count rate \\
TS1   & TS2   & Process & \multicolumn{1}{c}{(emission} & TS1 [1/hr]  & TS2  \\
 (keV) & (keV) &       & \multicolumn{1}{c}{probability} & Beam on  & [1/hr]  \\
      &       &       & \multicolumn{1}{c}{per decay)} & (Beam off) &  \\
      \midrule
140.38 & 140.31 & 75m-Ge (IT) & 39\%  & 461 (0) & 17 \\
159.70 & --    & 63-Cu (n,G) & 15.00\% & 411 (0) & -- \\
175.77 & --    & 70-Ge (n,G) & 25.00\% & 272 (0) & -- \\
186.39 & 186.59 & 235-U (A) & 57.20\% & 44 (56) & 43 \\
199.02 & 199.07 & 71-Ge (EC) & N/A   & 440 (0) & 38 \\
239.20 & 239.19 & 212-Pb (B-) & 43.30\% & 192 (197) & 186 \\
242.41 & 242.59 & 214-Pb (B-) & 7.43\% & 52 (57) & 79 \\
250.75 & --    & 39-Cl (B-) & 46.30\% & 177 (0) & -- \\
--    & 272.36 & 173-Lu (EC) & 21.20\% & --    & 48 \\
278.51 & --    & 63-Cu (n,G) & 24.00\% & 296 (0) & -- \\
295.65 & 295.55 & 214-Pb (B-) & 19.30\% & 92 (133) & 134 \\
320.41 & --    & 51-Cr (EC) & 10.00\% & 16 (17) & -- \\
338.61 & 338.78 & 228-Ac (B-) & 11.27\% & 43 (41) & 50 \\
352.28 & 352.22 & 214-Pb (B-) & 19.30\% & 449 (232) & 307 \\
352.28 & 352.22 & 56-Fe (n,G) & 9.50\% & 449 (232) & 307 \\
440.09 & --    & 23-Mg (EC) & 8.20\% & 131 (0) & -- \\
463.21 & 463.31 & 228-Ac (B-) & 4.40\% & 25 (17) & 14 \\
472.27 & --    & 23-Na (n,G) & 90.39\% & 81 (0) & -- \\
477.77 & --    & 7-Be (EC) & 10.52\% & 1457 (1501) & -- \\
500.01 & --    & 70-Gen (n,G) & 24.10\% & 93 (0) & -- \\
510.99 & 511.02 & Ann.  & N/A   & 116190 (262) & 18607 \\
--    & 558.42 & 113-Cd (n,G) & 74.40\% & --    & 141 \\
583.45 & 583.31 & 208-Tl (B-) & 84.50\% & 82 (91) & 84 \\
595.96 & 596.31 & 74-Ge (n,n' G) & 100.00\% & 272(0) & 15 \\
609.26 & --    & 74-Ge (n,n' G) & 18.20\% & 275 (219) & -- \\
609.48 & 609.55 & 214-Bi (B-) & 46.10\% & 275 (219) & 287 \\
--    & 651.28 & 113-Cd (n,G) & 14.09\% & --    & 35 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}%
\end{adjustbox}
\label{tab:addlabel}%
\end{table}%

Thanks for any guidance.

Best Answer

Maybe this? I introduce a \setrow{...} macro invoked on the first element of a row, which applies to each cell of that row (and is then reset). It employs the >{} and <{} feature of tabularx.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\newcommand\setrow[1]{\gdef\rowmac{#1}#1\ignorespaces}
\newcommand\clearrow{\global\let\rowmac\relax}
\clearrow
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{>{\rowmac}c|>{\rowmac}c|>{\rowmac}c<{\clearrow}}
a & b & c\\
\setrow{\bfseries}d & e & f\\
e & f& g\\
h & i & j\\
\setrow{\itshape} k & l & m\\
n & o & p
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

As applied to the OP's problem:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx,adjustbox,booktabs}
\newcommand\setrow[1]{\gdef\rowmac{#1}#1\ignorespaces}
\newcommand\clearrow{\global\let\rowmac\relax}
\clearrow
\begin{document}
\begin{adjustbox}{center}
\begin{tabular}{>{\rowmac}c>{\rowmac}c>{\rowmac}c>{\rowmac}r>{\rowmac}c>{\rowmac}%
  c<{\clearrow}}
\toprule
Energy & Energy & Origin & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Branching} & Av. peak  & Av. Peak \\

Measured & Measured & \&    & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Ratio } & count rate in & count rate \\
TS1   & TS2   & Process & \multicolumn{1}{c}{(emission} & TS1 [1/hr]  & TS2  \\
 (keV) & (keV) &       & \multicolumn{1}{c}{probability} & Beam on  & [1/hr]  \\
      &       &       & \multicolumn{1}{c}{per decay)} & (Beam off) &  \\
      \midrule
140.38 & 140.31 & 75m-Ge (IT) & 39\%  & 461 (0) & 17 \\
159.70 & --    & 63-Cu (n,G) & 15.00\% & 411 (0) & -- \\
175.77 & --    & 70-Ge (n,G) & 25.00\% & 272 (0) & -- \\
\setrow{\bfseries}186.39 & 186.59 & 235-U (A) & 57.20\% & 44 (56) & 43 \\
199.02 & 199.07 & 71-Ge (EC) & N/A   & 440 (0) & 38 \\
239.20 & 239.19 & 212-Pb (B-) & 43.30\% & 192 (197) & 186 \\
242.41 & 242.59 & 214-Pb (B-) & 7.43\% & 52 (57) & 79 \\
250.75 & --    & 39-Cl (B-) & 46.30\% & 177 (0) & -- \\
--    & 272.36 & 173-Lu (EC) & 21.20\% & --    & 48 \\
\setrow{\bfseries}278.51 & --    & 63-Cu (n,G) & 24.00\% & 296 (0) & -- \\
\setrow{\bfseries}295.65 & 295.55 & 214-Pb (B-) & 19.30\% & 92 (133) & 134 \\
320.41 & --    & 51-Cr (EC) & 10.00\% & 16 (17) & -- \\
338.61 & 338.78 & 228-Ac (B-) & 11.27\% & 43 (41) & 50 \\
352.28 & 352.22 & 214-Pb (B-) & 19.30\% & 449 (232) & 307 \\
352.28 & 352.22 & 56-Fe (n,G) & 9.50\% & 449 (232) & 307 \\
440.09 & --    & 23-Mg (EC) & 8.20\% & 131 (0) & -- \\
463.21 & 463.31 & 228-Ac (B-) & 4.40\% & 25 (17) & 14 \\
\setrow{\bfseries}472.27 & --    & 23-Na (n,G) & 90.39\% & 81 (0) & -- \\
477.77 & --    & 7-Be (EC) & 10.52\% & 1457 (1501) & -- \\
500.01 & --    & 70-Gen (n,G) & 24.10\% & 93 (0) & -- \\
510.99 & 511.02 & Ann.  & N/A   & 116190 (262) & 18607 \\
--    & 558.42 & 113-Cd (n,G) & 74.40\% & --    & 141 \\
\setrow{\bfseries}583.45 & 583.31 & 208-Tl (B-) & 84.50\% & 82 (91) & 84 \\
595.96 & 596.31 & 74-Ge (n,n' G) & 100.00\% & 272(0) & 15 \\
\setrow{\bfseries}609.26 & --    & 74-Ge (n,n' G) & 18.20\% & 275 (219) & -- \\
609.48 & 609.55 & 214-Bi (B-) & 46.10\% & 275 (219) & 287 \\
--    & 651.28 & 113-Cd (n,G) & 14.09\% & --    & 35 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}%
\end{adjustbox}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Make first row of table all bold

Taking apan's comment and turning it into an example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{$}{>{\global\let\currentrowstyle\relax}}
\newcolumntype{^}{>{\currentrowstyle}}
\newcommand{\rowstyle}[1]{\gdef\currentrowstyle{#1}%
  #1\ignorespaces
}

\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{$l^c^r}
\rowstyle{\bfseries}
a & a & a \\
b & b & b \\
c & c & c \\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

This gives:

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You might, of course, choose different markers for the column types.

To explain what is going on, the first 'column' is of type $ (could be any symbol not required in the preamble). This simply sets \currentrowstyle to do nothing, which means that in each row this command will be a no-op unless something else happens. The first real column (here l) will contain the command to make it bold (if required), but that is not true for the other columns. They therefore are preceded by ^, which is another fake column type used to apply \currentrowstyle.

In a normal row, \currentrowstyle therefore starts off as \relax and never changes, so the ^ do nothing and the row is unchanged. However, if the first column sets \rowstyle, this is saved as \currentrowstyle (for the later columns) and applied (for this column). The ^ then insert this at the start of each column in the row, so everything is bold.

(All of the operations are global as table cells form groups.)

[Tex/LaTex] Pgfplotstable one row in bold

You are right, the postproc options apply only to column--specific options.

In order to restrict their application to specific rows, you have to make them dependent on the row index \pgfplotstablerow:

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}

\begin{document}
\pgfplotstableset{
    highlight/.append style={
        postproc cell content/.append code={
                \pgfkeysalso{@cell content=\textbf{##1}}%
        },
    },
    highlight last row/.style={
        postproc cell content/.append code={
            \count0=\pgfplotstablerow
            \advance\count0 by1
            \ifnum\count0=\pgfplotstablerows
                \pgfkeysalso{@cell content=\textbf{##1}}%
            \fi
        },
    },
}
\pgfplotstabletypeset[
   every first column/.style={highlight,/pgf/number format/sci},
   highlight last row,
   every last row/.style={/pgf/number format/sci},
    col sep=&,row sep=\\]{
  colA & colB & colC \\
  11   & 12   & 13   \\
  21   & 22   & 23   \\
}
\end{document}

enter image description here

The manual was quite unclear on this particular aspect; I have improved the manual and introduced a check which detects such issues.

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