I'm in the unfortunate situation that I have to make a table in LaTeX which has thick vertical lines. Since this does not seem to be possible with the default tabular environment, I chose the tabu package. I know that there has been some discussion about its further usability about one year ago, but I found no other possibility, so I decided to give it a try.
It works well for me at all, but there is one horizontal line in my Layout, which is thick only half the way, so the vertical lines end to early for the thin parts, leaving ugly gaps.
This is the Layout:
And this is what I currently got:
Produced by this code:
%Dokumentclass
\documentclass[landscape]{letter}
%Packages
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}
\usepackage[utf8] {inputenc}
\usepackage {multirow}
\usepackage {tabu}
%Formatting
\pagestyle{empty} %Remove numbering
\begin{document}
\begin{tabu}{ |[1pt] l | l l | l | l |[1pt] }
\tabucline[1 pt]{1-5}
\multicolumn{2}{ |[1pt] l }{ } & \multicolumn{3}{ |[1pt] l |[1pt]}{ } \\ \hline
& & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l | }{ } & \multicolumn{2}{ l |[1pt] }{ } \\ \hline
& & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l | }{ } & \multicolumn{2}{ l |[1pt] }{ } \\ \tabucline[1 pt]{3-5} \hline
& & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l | }{ } & & \\ \hline
& & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l | }{ } & & \\ \hline
& & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l | }{ } & & \\ \hline
& & \multicolumn{1}{ |[1pt] l | }{ } & & \\ \tabucline[1 pt]{1-5}
\end{tabu}
\end{document}
Except for the fact, that some resizing has to be done, you can see the gaps in the third row at the first and second column.
I haven't found any solution yet. Is this problem even solvable with tabu? Are there any other packages for this purpose?
Best Answer
One way is to shift up the skip prior to the mid-height
\tabuclinewith a\\[-1pt]. See below for 2nd approach.Alternately, if you want the thin line to bisect the thick line, then the approach:
\\[-1pt] \tabucline[1 pt]{3-5}\\[-12.5pt]\hlineworks.