Cfrgtkky

I have several tables in a document and I would like to add a horizontal line across the page above and below the entire table environment. I can get the desired output with hrule and some extra spacing, but I'd like to be able to define a format that does this to use for all tables, rather than manually add the lines. Here's an example of my desired output:

documentclass{article}



usepackage[tableposition=top]{caption}

usepackage{float}

floatstyle{plaintop}

restylefloat{table}



begin{document}



text

vspace{5mm}hrule

begin{table}[H]

    centering

    begin{tabular}{c|c}

        a & a\

        a & a

    end{tabular}

    caption{something}

    label{something}

end{table}

hrulevspace{5mm}

text



end{document}

Thanks

Edit: Additionally, is there a way to change the spacing depending on whether the following content is text or an equation? If I had an equation instead of text either directly above or directly below the table, I would remove the corresponding vspace{5mm}.

Using the environ package, you can define your own table environment based off of the original table plus your required additions. The ruledtable, e.g., can be defined like this:

NewEnviron{ruledtable}{%

paraddvspace{5mm}hrule

begin{table}[!h]BODYend{table}

hruleaddvspace{5mm}

}

In this case, you will only change all instances of begin{table} .. end{table} in your text to the new begin{ruledtable} .. end{ruledtable} without any additional manual modifications.

documentclass{article}

usepackage[tableposition=top]{caption}

usepackage{float}

floatstyle{plaintop}

restylefloat{table}

usepackage{environ}



NewEnviron{ruledtable}{%

paraddvspace{5mm}hrule

begin{table}[!h]BODYend{table}

hruleaddvspace{5mm}

}



begin{document}



text

begin{ruledtable}

    centering

    begin{tabular}{c|c}

        a & a\

        a & a

    end{tabular}

    caption{something}

    label{something}

end{ruledtable}

text





begin{equation}

x + y = 5

end{equation}

begin{ruledtable}

    centering

    begin{tabular}{c|c}

        a & a\

        a & a

    end{tabular}

    caption{something2}

    label{something2}

end{ruledtable}

begin{equation}

x + y = 5

end{equation}



end{document}