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As above, I will soon need to give a presentation on tabular environment. You might very well wonder why. Apparently the aim of such presentation is to gain 'presentation' skills.

Anyhow, my question is: Do you know any "fun thing" about the tabular environment? Something which could make a presentation alive?

Cheers!

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    Yes, use as much vertical lines as possible -- this will strike! And make @egreg faint ;-) –  Oct 15 '15 at 11:37
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    Use funny content? Ducks are first choice, wombats come next. But i don't think this is on-topic here? – Johannes_B Oct 15 '15 at 11:38
  • To be honest: tabular is not really funny at all and perhaps one of the most boring topics -- or do have seen funny tables so far? ;-) –  Oct 15 '15 at 11:42
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    Making good looking tabulars can take quite some time and is not very funny. Also a lot of the tricks are rather technical. Depending on the audience you could show how to hide columns (e.g. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/263953/table-on-a-double-page/263956#263956, http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/204409/hide-multicolumns/204418#204418), – Ulrike Fischer Oct 15 '15 at 11:56
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    you should explain why all tabular macros use {\ifnum0=\}\fito open a group and\ifnum0=`{\fi}` to close it. – David Carlisle Oct 15 '15 at 12:47
  • @DavidCarlisle: No, that's too funny -- it would be like Monty Python's lethal joke by Ernest Scribbler ;-) –  Oct 15 '15 at 12:57
  • Even though this might be opinion-based, I think it admits valuable serious answers. I voted to reopen. – Gonzalo Medina Oct 15 '15 at 13:51

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As has been mentioned in comments, designing good tables is not an easy job and is, in general, not much fun. However, you can make a good entertaining and educational presentation by doing something similar to André Vatter's animation on how to improve tables, which can be found here.

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In this way you will have the opportunity to

  1. Practice/improve your skills on overlay specifications/animations in your presentation
  2. Teach a valuable lesson about designing professional looking tables.
Gonzalo Medina
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