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In article <sjh.813291096@phadfa>,
Stephen Harker  <sjh@phadfa.ph.adfa.edu.au> wrote:
>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 wrote a little package that would solve the horizontal lines case,
but I didn't carry on to do vertical lines because it wasn't that
day's problem.  (Vertical lines are more tricky, as you can imagine.)

If you want what I've got, you're welcome to it; basically it defines
an optional thickness argument to \hline and \cline ... as a result it
has a considerable degree of horribleness about it, but it seems to
work.
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