Library

Library

Documentation for PrettyTables.jl.

HTMLDecoration

Structure that defines parameters to decorate a table cell.

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HTMLHighlighter

Defines the default highlighter of a table when using the html backend.

Fields

  • f: Function with the signature f(data,i,j) in which should return true if the element (i,j) in data must be highlighter, or false otherwise.
  • fd: Function with the signature f(h,data,i,j) in which h is the highlighter. This function must return the HTMLDecoration to be applied to the cell that must be highlighted.
  • decoration: The HTMLDecoration to be applied to the highlighted cell if the default fd is used.

Remarks

This structure can be constructed using two helpers:

HTMLHighlighter(f::Function, decoration::HTMLDecoration)

HTMLHighlighter(f::Function, fd::Function)

The first will apply a fixed decoration to the highlighted cell specified in decoration whereas the second let the user select the desired decoration by specifying the function fd.

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HTMLTableFormat

Format that will be used to print the HTML table. All parameters are strings compatible with the corresponding HTML property.

Fields

  • css: CSS to be injected at the end of the <style> section.
  • table_width: Table width.

Remarks

Besides the usual HTML tags related to the tables (table, td,th,tr, etc.), there are three important classes that can be used to format tables using the variablecss`.

  • header: This is the class of the header (first line).
  • subheader: This is the class of the sub-headers (all the rest of the lines in the header section).
  • headerLastRow: The last row of the header section has additionally this class.
  • rowNumber: All the cells related to the row number have this class. Thus, the row number header can be styled using th.rowNumber and the row numbers cells can be styled using td.rowNumber.
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Highlighter

Defines the default highlighter of a table when using the text backend.

Fields

  • f: Function with the signature f(data,i,j) in which should return true if the element (i,j) in data must be highlighter, or false otherwise.
  • fd: Function with the signature f(h,data,i,j) in which h is the highlighter. This function must return the Crayon to be applied to the cell that must be highlighted.
  • crayon: The Crayon to be applied to the highlighted cell if the default fd is used.

Remarks

This structure can be constructed using three helpers:

Highlighter(f::Function; kwargs...)

where it will construct a Crayon using the keywords in kwargs and apply it to the highlighted cell,

Highlighter(f::Function, crayon::Crayon)

where it will apply the crayon to the highlighted cell, and

Highlighter(f::Function, fd::Function)

where it will apply the Crayon returned by the function fd to the highlighted cell.

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LatexHighlighter

Defines the default highlighter of a table when using the LaTeX backend.

Fields

  • f: Function with the signature f(data,i,j) in which should return true if the element (i,j) in data must be highlighted, or false otherwise.
  • fd: A function with the signature f(data,i,j,str)::String in which data is the matrix, (i,j) is the element position in the table, and str is the data converted to string. This function must return a string that will be placed in the cell.

Remarks

This structure can be constructed using two helpers:

LatexHighlighter(f::Function, envs::Union{String,Vector{String}})

LatexHighlighter(f::Function, fd::Function)

The first will apply recursively all the LaTeX environments in envs to the highlighted text whereas the second let the user select the desired decoration by specifying the function fd.

Thus, for example:

LatexHighlighter((data,i,j)->true, ["textbf", "small"])

will wrap all the cells in the table in the following environment:

\textbf{\small{<Cell text>}}
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LatexTableFormat

This structure defines the format of the LaTeX table.

Fields

  • top_line: Top line of the table.
  • header_line: Line that separate the header from the table body.
  • mid_line: Line printed in the middle of the table.
  • bottom_line: Bottom line of the table.
  • left_vline: Left vertical line of the table.
  • mid_vline: Vertical line in the middle of the table.
  • right_vline: Right vertical line of the table.
  • header_envs: LaTeX environments that will be used in each header cell.
  • subheader_envs: LaTeX environments that will be used in each sub-header cell.
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TextFormat

Fields

  • up_right_corner: Character in the up right corner.
  • up_left_corner: Character in the up left corner.
  • bottom_left_corner: Character in the bottom left corner.
  • bottom_right_corner: Character in the bottom right corner.
  • up_intersection: Character in the intersection of lines in the up part.
  • left_intersection: Character in the intersection of lines in the left part.
  • right_intersection: Character in the intersection of lines in the right part.
  • middle_intersection: Character in the intersection of lines in the middle of the table.
  • bottom_intersection: Character in the intersection of the lines in the bottom part.
  • column: Character in a vertical line inside the table.
  • left_border: Character used as the left border.
  • right_border: Character used as the right border.
  • row: Character in a horizontal line inside the table.
  • hlines: Horizontal lines that must be drawn by default.
  • vlines: Vertical lines that must be drawn by default.

Pre-defined formats

The following pre-defined formats are available: unicode (default), mysql, compact, markdown, simple, ascii_rounded, and ascii_dots.

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ft_latex_sn(m_digits, [columns])

Format the numbers of the elements in the columns columns to a scientific notation using LaTeX. The number is first printed using sprintf1 functions with the g modifier and then converted to the LaTeX format. The number of digits in the mantissa can be selected by the argument m_digits.

If m_digits is a Vector, then columns must be also be a Vector with the same number of elements. If m_digits is a Integer, and columns is not specified (or is empty), then the format will be applied to the entire table. Otherwise, if m_digits is a String and columns is a Vector, then the format will be applied only to the columns in columns.

Remarks

This formatter will be applied only to the cells that are of type Number.

ft_printf(ftv_str, [columns])

Apply the formats ftv_str (see the function sprintf1 of the package Formatting.jl) to the elements in the columns columns.

If ftv_str is a Vector, then columns must be also be a Vector with the same number of elements. If ftv_str is a String, and columns is not specified (or is empty), then the format will be applied to the entire table. Otherwise, if ftv_str is a String and columns is a Vector, then the format will be applied only to the columns in columns.

Remarks

This formatter will be applied only to the cells that are of type Number.

ft_round(digits, [columns])

Round the elements in the columns columns to the number of digits in digits.

If digits is a Vector, then columns must be also be a Vector with the same number of elements. If digits is a Number, and columns is not specified (or is empty), then the rounding will be applied to the entire table. Otherwise, if digits is a Number and columns is a Vector, then the elements in the columns columns will be rounded to the number of digits digits.

hl_cell(i::Number, j::Number, crayon::Crayon)

Highlight the cell (i,j) with the crayon crayon.

hl_cell(cells::AbstractVector{NTuple(2,Int)}, crayon::Crayon)

Highlights all the cells in cells with the crayon crayon.

Remarks

Those functions return a Highlighter to be used with the text backend.

hl_cell(i::Number, j::Number, decoration::HTMLDecoration)

Highlight the cell (i,j) with the decoration decoration (see HTMLDecoration).

hl_cell(cells::AbstractVector{NTuple(2,Int)}, decoration::HTMLDecoration)

Highlights all the cells in cells with the decoration decoration (see HTMLDecoration).

Remarks

Those functions return a HTMLHighlighter to be used with the HTML backend.

hl_col(i::Number, crayon::Crayon)

Highlight the entire column i with the crayon crayon.

hl_col(cols::AbstractVector{Int}, crayon::Crayon)

Highlights all the columns in cols with the crayon crayon.

Remarks

Those functions return a Highlighter to be used with the text backend.

hl_col(i::Number, decoration::HTMLDecoration)

Highlight the entire column i with the decoration decoration.

hl_col(cols::AbstractVector{Int}, decoration::HTMLDecoration)

Highlights all the columns in cols with the decoration decoration.

Remarks

Those functions return a HTMLHighlighter to be used with the HTML backend.

hl_geq(n::Number, decoration::HTMLDecoration)

Highlight all elements that ≥ n using the decoration decoration.

Remarks

Those functions return a HTMLHighlighter to be used with the text backend.

hl_geq(n::Number)

Highlight all elements that ≥ n.

Remarks

Those functions return a Highlighter to be used with the text backend.

PrettyTables.hl_gtMethod.
hl_gt(n::Number, decoration::HTMLDecoration)

Highlight all elements that > n using the decoration decoration.

Remarks

Those functions return a HTMLHighlighter to be used with the text backend.

PrettyTables.hl_gtMethod.
hl_gt(n::Number)

Highlight all elements that > n.

Remarks

Those functions return a Highlighter to be used with the text backend.

hl_leq(n::Number, decoration::HTMLDecoration)

Highlight all elements that ≤ n using the decoration decoration.

Remarks

Those functions return a HTMLHighlighter to be used with the text backend.

hl_leq(n::Number)

Highlight all elements that ≤ n.

Remarks

Those functions return a Highlighter to be used with the text backend.

PrettyTables.hl_ltMethod.
hl_lt(n::Number, decoration::HTMLDecoration)

Highlight all elements that < n using the decoration decoration.

Remarks

Those functions return a HTMLHighlighter to be used with the text backend.

PrettyTables.hl_ltMethod.
hl_lt(n::Number)

Highlight all elements that < n.

Remarks

Those functions return a Highlighter to be used with the text backend.

hl_row(i::Number, crayon::Crayon)

Highlight the entire row i with the crayon crayon.

hl_row(rows::AbstractVector{Int}, crayon::Crayon)

Highlights all the rows in rows with the crayon crayon.

Remarks

Those functions return a Highlighter to be used with the text backend.

hl_row(i::Number, decoration::HTMLDecoration)

Highlight the entire row i with the decoration decoration.

hl_row(rows::AbstractVector{Int}, decoration::HTMLDecoration)

Highlights all the rows in rows with the decoration decoration.

Remarks

Those functions return a HTMLHighlighter to be used with the HTML backend.

hl_value(v::Any, decoration::HTMLDecoration)

Highlight all the values that matches data[i,j] == v using the decoration decoration.

Remarks

Those functions return a HTMLHighlighter to be used with the text backend.

hl_value(v::Any)

Highlight all the values that matches data[i,j] == v.

Remarks

Those functions return a Highlighter to be used with the text backend.

include_pt_in_file(filename::AbstractString, mark::AbstractString, args...; kwargs...)

Include a table in the file filename using the mark mark.

This function will print a table using the arguments args and keywords kwargs in the function pretty_table (the IO must not be passed to args here). Then, it will search inside the file filename for the following section:

<PrettyTables mark>
...
</PrettyTables>

and will replace everything between the marks with the printed table. If the closing tag is in a separate line, then all characters before it will be kept. This is important to add comment tags.

If the user wants to also remove the opening and ending tags, then pass the keyword remove_tags = true.

The keyword tag_append can be used to pass a string that can be used to add a text after the opening tag. This is important for HTML where the comments have openning and closing tags. Thus, if tag_append = " -->", then the following can be used to add a table into HTML files:

<!-- <PrettyTables mark> -->
...
<!-- </PrettyTables> -->

By default, this function will copy the original file to filename_backup. If this is not desired, then pass the keyword backup_file = false to the function.

pretty_table([io::IO | String,] table[, header::AbstractVecOrMat];  kwargs...)

Print to io the table table with header header. If io is omitted, then it defaults to stdout. If String is passed in the place of io, then a String with the printed table will be returned by the function.

The header can be a Vector or a Matrix. If it is a Matrix, then each row will be a header line. The first line is called header and the others are called sub-headers . If header is empty or missing, then it will be automatically filled with "Col. i" for the i-th column.

When printing, it will be verified if table complies with Tables.jl API. If it is is compliant, then this interface will be used to print the table. If it is not compliant, then only the following types are supported:

  1. AbstractVector: any vector can be printed. In this case, the header must be a vector, where the first element is considered the header and the others are the sub-headers.
  2. AbstractMatrix: any matrix can be printed.
  3. Dict: any Dict can be printed. In this case, the special keyword sortkeys can be used to select whether or not the user wants to print the dictionary with the keys sorted. If it is false, then the elements will be printed on the same order returned by the functions keys and values. Notice that this assumes that the keys are sortable, if they are not, then an error will be thrown.

Keywords

  • alignment: Select the alignment of the columns (see the section Alignment).

  • backend: Select which back-end will be used to print the table (see the section Backend). Notice that the additional configuration in kwargs... depends on the selected backend. (see the section Backend).

  • cell_alignment: A tuple of functions with the signature f(data,i,j) that overrides the alignment of the cell (i,j) to the value returned by f. It can also be a single function, when it is assumed that only one alignment function is required, or nothing, when no cell alignment modification will be performed. If the function f does not return a valid alignment symbol as shown in section Alignment, then it will be discarded. For convenience, it can also be a dictionary of type (i,j) => a that overrides the alignment of the cell (i,j) to a. a must be a symbol like specified in the section Alignment.

    Note

    If more than one alignment function is passed to cell_alignment, then the functions will be evaluated in the same order of the tuple. The first one that returns a valid alignment symbol for each cell is applied, and the rest is discarded.

    (Default = nothing)

  • filters_row: Filters for the rows (see the section Filters).

  • filters_col: Filters for the columns (see the section Filters).

  • formatters: See the section Formatters.

  • row_names: A vector containing the row names that will be appended to the left of the table. If it is nothing, then the column with the row names will not be shown. Notice that the size of this vector must match the number of rows in the table. (Default = nothing)

  • row_name_alignment: Alignment of the column with the rows name (see the section Alignment).

  • row_name_column_title: Title of the column with the row names. (Default = "")

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Notice that all back-ends have the keyword tf to specify the table printing format. Thus, if the keyword backend is not present or if it is nothing, then the back-end will be automatically inferred from the type of the keyword tf. In this case, if tf is also not present, then it just fall-back to the text back-end.

Alignment

The keyword alignment can be a Symbol or a vector of Symbol.

If it is a symbol, we have the following behavior:

  • :l or :L: the text of all columns will be left-aligned;
  • :c or :C: the text of all columns will be center-aligned;
  • :r or :R: the text of all columns will be right-aligned;
  • Otherwise it defaults to :r.

If it is a vector, then it must have the same number of symbols as the number of columns in data. The i-th symbol in the vector specify the alignment of the i-th column using the same symbols as described previously.

Filters

It is possible to specify filters to filter the data that will be printed. There are two types of filters: the row filters, which are specified by the keyword filters_row, and the column filters, which are specified by the keyword filters_col.

The filters are a tuple of functions that must have the following signature:

f(data,i)::Bool

in which data is a pointer to the matrix that is being printed and i is the i-th row in the case of the row filters or the i-th column in the case of column filters. If this function returns true for i, then the i-th row (in case of filters_row) or the i-th column (in case of filters_col) will be printed. Otherwise, it will be omitted.

A set of filters can be passed inside of a tuple. Notice that, in this case, all filters for a specific row or column must be return true so that it can be printed, i.e the set of filters has an AND logic.

If the keyword is set to nothing, which is the default, then no filtering will be applied to the data.

Note

The filters do not change the row and column numbering for the others modifiers such as column width specification, formatters, and highlighters. Thus, for example, if only the 4-th row is printed, then it will also be referenced inside the formatters and highlighters as 4 instead of 1.


Pretty table text back-end

This back-end produces text tables. This back-end can be used by selecting back-end = :text.

Keywords

  • border_crayon: Crayon to print the border.

  • header_crayon: Crayon to print the header.

  • subheaders_crayon: Crayon to print sub-headers.

  • rownum_header_crayon: Crayon for the header of the column with the row numbers.

  • text_crayon: Crayon to print default text.

  • autowrap: If true, then the text will be wrapped on spaces to fit the column. Notice that this function requires linebreaks = true and the column must have a fixed size (see columns_width).

  • body_hlines: A vector of Int indicating row numbers in which an additional horizontal line should be drawn after the row. Notice that numbers lower than 1 and equal or higher than the number of printed rows will be neglected. This vector will be appended to the one in hlines, but the indices here are related to the printed rows of the body. Thus, if 1 is added to body_hlines, then a horizontal line will be drawn after the first data row. (Default = Int[])

  • body_hlines_format: A tuple of 4 characters specifying the format of the horizontal lines that will be drawn by body_hlines. The characters must be the left intersection, the middle intersection, the right intersection, and the row. If it is nothing, then it will use the same format specified in tf. (Default = nothing)

  • columns_width: A set of integers specifying the width of each column. If the width is equal or lower than 0, then it will be automatically computed to fit the large cell in the column. If it is a single integer, then this number will be used as the size of all columns. (Default = 0)

  • crop: Select the printing behavior when the data is bigger than the available screen size (see screen_size). It can be :both to crop on vertical and horizontal direction, :horizontal to crop only on horizontal direction, :vertical to crop only on vertical direction, or :none to do not crop the data at all.

  • highlighters: An instance of Highlighter or a tuple with a list of text highlighters (see the section Text highlighters).

  • hlines: This variable controls where the horizontal lines will be drawn. It can be nothing, :all, :none or a vector of integers.

    • If it is nothing, which is the default, then the configuration will be obtained from the table format in the variable tf (see TextFormat).
    • If it is :all, then all horizontal lines will be drawn.
    • If it is :none, then no horizontal line will be drawn.
    • If it is a vector of integers, then the horizontal lines will be drawn only after the rows in the vector. Notice that the top line will be drawn if 0 is in hlines, and the header and subheaders are considered as only 1 row. Furthermore, it is important to mention that the row number in this variable is related to the printed rows. Thus, it is affected by filters, and by the option to suppress the header noheader. Finally, for convenience, the top and bottom lines can be drawn by adding the symbols :begin and :end to this vector, respectively, and the line after the header can be drawn by adding the symbol :header.
    Info

    The values of body_hlines will be appended to this vector. Thus, horizontal lines can be drawn even if hlines is :none.

    (Default = nothing)

  • linebreaks: If true, then \n will break the line inside the cells. (Default = false)

  • noheader: If true, then the header will not be printed. Notice that all keywords and parameters related to the header and sub-headers will be ignored. (Default = false)

  • nosubheader: If true, then the sub-header will not be printed, i.e. the header will contain only one line. Notice that this option has no effect if noheader = true. (Default = false)

  • overwrite: If true, then the same number of lines in the printed table will be deleted from the output io. This can be used to update the table in the screen continuously. (Default = false)

  • same_column_size: If true, then all the columns will have the same size. (Default = false)

  • screen_size: A tuple of two integers that defines the screen size (num. of rows, num. of columns) that is available to print the table. It is used to crop the data depending on the value of the keyword crop. If it is nothing, then the size will be obtained automatically. Notice that if a dimension is not positive, then it will be treated as unlimited. (Default = nothing)

  • show_row_number: If true, then a new column will be printed showing the row number. (Default = false)

  • tf: Table format used to print the table (see TextFormat). (Default = unicode)

  • vlines: This variable controls where the vertical lines will be drawn. It can be nothing, :all, :none or a vector of integers.

    • If it is nothing, which is the default, then the configuration will be obtained from the table format in the variable tf (see TextFormat).
    • If it is :all, then all vertical lines will be drawn.
    • If it is :none, then no vertical line will be drawn.
    • If it is a vector of integers, then the vertical lines will be drawn only after the columns in the vector. Notice that the top line will be drawn if 0 is in vlines. Furthermore, it is important to mention that the column number in this variable is related to the printed column. Thus, it is affected by filters, and by the options row_names and show_row_number. Finally, for convenience, the left and right vertical lines can be drawn by adding the symbols :begin and :end to this vector, respectively, and the line after the header can be drawn by adding the symbol :header.

    (Default = nothing)

The keywords header_crayon and subheaders_crayon can be a Crayon or a Vector{Crayon}. In the first case, the Crayon will be applied to all the elements. In the second, each element can have its own crayon, but the length of the vector must be equal to the number of columns in the data.

Crayons

A Crayon is an object that handles a style for text printed on terminals. It is defined in the package Crayons.jl. There are many options available to customize the style, such as foreground color, background color, bold text, etc.

A Crayon can be created in two different ways:

julia> Crayon(foreground = :blue, background = :black, bold = :true)

julia> crayon"blue bg:black bold"

For more information, see the package documentation.

Text highlighters

A set of highlighters can be passed as a Tuple to the highlighters keyword. Each highlighter is an instance of the structure Highlighter that contains three fields:

  • f: Function with the signature f(data,i,j) in which should return true if the element (i,j) in data must be highlighter, or false otherwise.
  • fd: Function with the signature f(h,data,i,j) in which h is the highlighter. This function must return the Crayon to be applied to the cell that must be highlighted.
  • crayon: The Crayon to be applied to the highlighted cell if the default fd is used.

The function f has the following signature:

f(data, i, j)

in which data is a reference to the data that is being printed, and i and j are the element coordinates that are being tested. If this function returns true, then the cell (i,j) will be highlighted.

If the function f returns true, then the function fd(h,data,i,j) will be called and must return a Crayon that will be applied to the cell.

A highlighter can be constructed using three helpers:

Highlighter(f::Function; kwargs...)

where it will construct a Crayon using the keywords in kwargs and apply it to the highlighted cell,

Highlighter(f::Function, crayon::Crayon)

where it will apply the crayon to the highlighted cell, and

Highlighter(f::Function, fd::Function)

where it will apply the Crayon returned by the function fd to the highlighted cell.

Info

If only a single highlighter is wanted, then it can be passed directly to the keyword highlighter without being inside a Tuple.

Note

If multiple highlighters are valid for the element (i,j), then the applied style will be equal to the first match considering the order in the tuple highlighters.

Note

If the highlighters are used together with Formatters, then the change in the format will not affect the parameter data passed to the highlighter function f. It will always receive the original, unformatted value.


Pretty table HTML backend

This backend produces HTML tables. This backend can be used by selecting backend = :html.

Keywords

  • highlighters: An instance of HTMLHighlighter or a tuple with a list of HTML highlighters (see the section HTML highlighters).
  • linebreaks: If true, then \n will be replaced by <br>. (Default = false)
  • noheader: If true, then the header will not be printed. Notice that all keywords and parameters related to the header and sub-headers will be ignored. (Default = false)
  • nosubheader: If true, then the sub-header will not be printed, i.e. the header will contain only one line. Notice that this option has no effect if noheader = true. (Default = false)
  • show_row_number: If true, then a new column will be printed showing the row number. (Default = false)
  • standalone: If true, then a complete HTML page will be generated. Otherwise, only the content between the tags <table> and </table> will be printed (with the tags included). (Default = true)
  • tf: An instance of the structure HTMLTableFormat that defines the general format of the HTML table.

HTML highlighters

A set of highlighters can be passed as a Tuple to the highlighters keyword. Each highlighter is an instance of a structure that is a subtype of AbstractHTMLHighlighter. It also must also contain at least the following two fields to comply with the API:

  • f: Function with the signature f(data,i,j) in which should return true if the element (i,j) in data must be highlighted, or false otherwise.
  • fd: Function with the signature f(h,data,i,j) in which h is the highlighter. This function must return the HTMLDecoration to be applied to the cell that must be highlighted.

The function f has the following signature:

f(data, i, j)

in which data is a reference to the data that is being printed, and i and j are the element coordinates that are being tested. If this function returns true, then the highlight style will be applied to the (i,j) element. Otherwise, the default style will be used.

If the function f returns true, then the function fd(h,data,i,j) will be called and must return an element of type HTMLDecoration that contains the decoration to be applied to the cell.

A HTML highlighter can be constructed using two helpers:

HTMLHighlighter(f::Function, decoration::HTMLDecoration)

HTMLHighlighter(f::Function, fd::Function)

The first will apply a fixed decoration to the highlighted cell specified in decoration whereas the second let the user select the desired decoration by specifying the function fd.

Info

If only a single highlighter is wanted, then it can be passed directly to the keyword highlighter without being inside a Tuple.

Note

If multiple highlighters are valid for the element (i,j), then the applied style will be equal to the first match considering the order in the tuple highlighters.

Note

If the highlighters are used together with Formatters, then the change in the format will not affect the parameter data passed to the highlighter function f. It will always receive the original, unformatted value.


Pretty table LaTeX backend

This backend produces LaTeX tables. This backend can be used by selecting backend = :latex.

Keywords

  • highlighters: An instance of LatexHighlighter or a tuple with a list of LaTeX highlighters (see the section LaTeX highlighters).
  • hlines: A vector of Int indicating row numbers in which an additional horizontal line should be drawn after the row. Notice that numbers lower than 1 and equal or higher than the number of rows will be neglected.
  • longtable_footer: The string that will be drawn in the footer of the tables before a page break. This only works if table_type is :longtable. If it is nothing, then no footer will be used. (Default = nothing)
  • noheader: If true, then the header will not be printed. Notice that all keywords and parameters related to the header and sub-headers will be ignored. (Default = false)
  • nosubheader: If true, then the sub-header will not be printed, i.e. the header will contain only one line. Notice that this option has no effect if noheader = true. (Default = false)
  • show_row_number: If true, then a new column will be printed showing the row number. (Default = false)
  • table_type: Select which LaTeX environment will be used to print the table. Currently supported options are :tabular for tabular or :longtable for longtable. (Default = :tabular)
  • tf: An instance of the structure LatexTableFormat that defines the general format of the LaTeX table.
  • vlines: This variable controls where the vertical lines will be drawn. It can be :all, :none or a vector of integers. In the first case (the default behavior), all vertical lines will be drawn. In the second case, no vertical line will be drawn. In the third case, the vertical lines will be drawn only after the columns in the vector. Notice that the left border will be drawn if 0 is in vlines. Furthermore, it is important to mention that the column number in this variable is related to the printed columns. Thus, it is affected by filters, and by the columns added using the variable show_row_number. Finally, for convenience, the left and right border can be drawn by adding the symbols :begin and :end to this vector, respectively. (Default = :none)

LaTeX highlighters

A set of highlighters can be passed as a Tuple to the highlighters keyword. Each highlighter is an instance of the structure LatexHighlighter. It contains the following two fields:

  • f: Function with the signature f(data,i,j) in which should return true if the element (i,j) in data must be highlighted, or false otherwise.
  • fd: A function with the signature f(data,i,j,str)::String in which data is the matrix, (i,j) is the element position in the table, and str is the data converted to string. This function must return a string that will be placed in the cell.

The function f has the following signature:

f(data, i, j)

in which data is a reference to the data that is being printed, i and j are the element coordinates that are being tested. If this function returns true, then the highlight style will be applied to the (i,j) element. Otherwise, the default style will be used.

If the function f returns true, then the function fd(data,i,j,str) will be called and must return the LaTeX string that will be placed in the cell.

There are two helpers that can be used to create LaTeX highlighters:

LatexHighlighter(f::Function, envs::Union{String,Vector{String}})

LatexHighlighter(f::Function, fd::Function)

The first will apply recursively all the LaTeX environments in envs to the highlighted text whereas the second let the user select the desired decoration by specifying the function fd.

Thus, for example:

LatexHighlighter((data,i,j)->true, ["textbf", "small"])

will wrap all the cells in the table in the following environment:

\textbf{\small{<Cell text>}}
Info

If only a single highlighter is wanted, then it can be passed directly to the keyword highlighter without being inside a Tuple.

Note

If multiple highlighters are valid for the element (i,j), then the applied style will be equal to the first match considering the order in the tuple highlighters.

Note

If the highlighters are used together with Formatters, then the change in the format will not affect the parameter data passed to the highlighter function f. It will always receive the original, unformatted value.


Formatters

The keyword formatters can be used to pass functions to format the values in the columns. It must be a tuple of functions in which each function has the following signature:

f(v, i, j)

where v is the value in the cell, i is the row number, and j is the column number. Thus, it must return the formatted value of the cell (i,j) that has the value v. Notice that the returned value will be converted to string after using the function sprint.

This keyword can also be a single function, meaning that only one formatter is available, or nothing, meaning that no formatter will be used.

For example, if we want to multiply all values in odd rows of the column 2 by π, then the formatter should look like:

formatters = (v,i,j) -> (j == 2 && isodd(i)) ? v*π : v

If multiple formatters are available, then they will be applied in the same order as they are located in the tuple. Thus, for the following formatters:

formatters = (f1, f2, f3)

each element v in the table (i-th row and j-th column) will be formatted by:

v = f1(v,i,j)
v = f2(v,i,j)
v = f3(v,i,j)

Thus, the user must be ensure that the type of v between the calls are compatible.

PrettyTables.@ptMacro.
@pt(expr...)

Pretty print tables in expr to stdout using the global configurations selected with the macro @ptconf.

Multiple tables can be printed by passing multiple expressions like:

@pt table1 table2 table3

The user can select the table header by passing the expression:

:header = [<Vector with the header>]

Notice that the header is valid only for the next printed table. Hence:

@pt :header = header1 table1 :header = header2 table2 table3

will print table1 using header1, table2 using header2, and table3 using the default header.

Examples

julia> @ptconf tf = simple

julia> @pt :header = ["Time","Velocity"] [1:1:10 ones(10)] :header = ["Time","Position"] [1:1:10 1:1:10]
======= ===========
  Time   Velocity
======= ===========
   1.0        1.0
   2.0        1.0
   3.0        1.0
   4.0        1.0
   5.0        1.0
   6.0        1.0
   7.0        1.0
   8.0        1.0
   9.0        1.0
  10.0        1.0
======= ===========
======= ===========
  Time   Position
======= ===========
     1          1
     2          2
     3          3
     4          4
     5          5
     6          6
     7          7
     8          8
     9          9
    10         10
======= ===========

julia> @pt ones(3,3) + I + [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9]
========= ======== =========
  Col. 1   Col. 2   Col. 3
========= ======== =========
     3.0      3.0      4.0
     5.0      7.0      7.0
     8.0      9.0     11.0
========= ======== =========

Remarks

When more than one table is passed to this macro, then multiple calls to pretty_table will occur. Hence, the cropping algorithm will behave exactly the same as printing the tables separately.

@ptconf(expr...)

Add configurations in expr to be used with the macro @pt.

The expression format must be:

keyword1 = value1 keyword2 = value2 ...

in which the keywords can be any other possible keyword that can be used in the function pretty_table.

Warning

If a keyword is not supported by the function pretty_table, then no error message is printed when calling @ptconf. However, an error will be thrown when @pt is called.

@ptconfclean()

Clean all global configurations to pretty print tables using the macro @pt.

AbstractHTMLHighlighter

All HTML highlighters must be a subtype of AbstractHTMLHighlighter. They API dictates that they must implement two functions:

  • f: Function with the signature f(data,i,j) in which should return true if the element (i,j) in data must be highlighted, or false otherwise.
  • fd: Function with the signature f(h,data,i,j) in which h is the highlighter. This function must return the HTMLDecoration to be applied to the cell that must be highlighted.
struct ColumnTable{T}

This structure helps to access elements that comply with the column access specification of Tables.jl.

PrintInfo{Td,Th,Trn}

This structure stores the information required so that the backends can print the tables.

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struct RowTable{T}

This structure helps to access elements that comply with the row access specification of Tables.jl.

Screen

Store the information of the screen and the current cursor position. Notice that this is not the real cursor position with respect to the screen, but with respect to the point in which the table is printed.

Fields

  • size: Screen size.
  • row: Current row.
  • col: Current column.
  • has_color: Indicates if the screen has color support.
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_draw_continuation_row(screen, io, tf, text_crayon, border_crayon, cols_width, vlines)

Draw the continuation row when the table has filled the vertical space available. This function prints in each column the character centered.

_draw_line!(screen, io, left, intersection, right, row, border_crayon, cols_width)

Draw a vertical line in io using the information in screen.

PrettyTables._eolMethod.
_eol(screen)

Return true if the cursor is at the end of line or false otherwise.

PrettyTables._nl!Method.
_nl!(screen, io)

Add a new line into io using the screen information in screen.

PrettyTables._p!Function.
_p!(screen, io, crayon, str, final_line_print = false)

Print str into io using the Crayon crayon with the screen information in screen. The parameter final_line_print must be set to true if this is the last string that will be printed in the line. This is necessary for the algorithm to select whether or not to include the continuation character.

PrettyTables._pc!Function.
_pc!(cond, screen, io, crayon, str_true, str_false, final_line_print = false)

If cond == true then print str_true. Otherwise, print str_false. Those strings will be printed into io using the Crayon crayon with the screen information in screen. The parameter final_line_print must be set to true if this is the last string that will be printed in the line. This is necessary for the algorithm to select whether or not to include the continuation character.

_str_aligned(data::AbstractString, alignment::Symbol, field_size::Integer)

This function returns the string data with alignment alignment in a field with size field_size. alignment can be :l or :L for left alignment, :c or :C for center alignment, or :r or :R for right alignment. It defaults to :r if alignment is any other symbol.

_str_escaped(str::AbstractString)

Return the escaped string representation of str.

_str_line_breaks(str::AbstractString, autowrap::Bool = false, width::Int = 0)

Split the string str into substring, each one meaning one new line. If autowrap is true, then the text will be wrapped so that it fits the column with the width width.