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csccm@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Chris Miles) writes:

>I have some tables and would like to make the lines around the border
>thicker than the lines inside the table.  Can I do this with the
>standard LaTeX2e \tabular environment, or do I need one of the special
>tabular packages?

I don't know of a package that provides many rules of different widths,
and have cross posted this answer to comp.text.tex in case anyone has a
solution.  My only sugestion is to adjust the value of \doublerulesep
so that double rules appear together giving one single thick rule.  You
could do this globally (in the preamble) or within a table environment
(before the \begin{tabular}).  This would mean that the double rules:
|| and \hline\hline  would give thicker lines.  

I hope this is of some help.
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