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I wish to type this table in REVTeX; however, the code below does not work for \documentclass{revtex4}. (It does work for the article document class, though.)

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\documentclass{revtex4} \usepackage{array,mathtools,amssymb,booktabs} \newcolumntype{C}{>{$}c<{$}} \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{cCCC} \toprule \multicolumn{2}{c}{} & K & H\\\midrule A & a & 1& 4\\\cmidrule(lr){2-4} B & b & 2 & 5\\\cmidrule(lr){1-4} \multicolumn{2}{c}{C}& 3 & 6\\\bottomrule \end{tabular} \end{document}

The code is from the source of this page. Thanks to the generous cfr.

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Update This answer addresses a workaround for revtex4-1 which is not needed with current releases (revtex4-2)

booktabs sets the default widths in a font dependent way (em units) but it seems that revtex does not set up the font until \begin{document} so you need to delay setting the rule widths via the \AtBeginDocument directive shown below.

\documentclass{revtex4} \usepackage{array,mathtools,amssymb,booktabs} \newcolumntype{C}{>{$}c<{$}} \AtBeginDocument{% \heavyrulewidth=.08em \lightrulewidth=.05em \cmidrulewidth=.03em \belowrulesep=.65ex \belowbottomsep=0pt \aboverulesep=.4ex \abovetopsep=0pt \cmidrulesep=\doublerulesep \cmidrulekern=.5em \defaultaddspace=.5em } \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{cCCC} \toprule \multicolumn{2}{c}{} & K & H\\\midrule A & a & 1& 4\\\cmidrule(lr){2-4} B & b & 2 & 5\\\cmidrule(lr){1-4} \multicolumn{2}{c}{C}& 3 & 6\\\bottomrule \end{tabular} \end{document}
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  • Thank you. What is the purpose for this paragraph "\AtBeginDocument{...}" ? Where should I input this? Commented Jan 12, 2015 at 1:20
  • To avoid the duplicated code, couldn't one just do \AtBeginDocument{\usepackage{booktabs}} (also removing booktabs from the \usepackage on line 2, of course)? Commented Jan 12, 2015 at 1:20
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    This is overwriting revtex4's own definition of commands such as \toprule. If this is for submission somewhere requiring the use of revtex4, I doubt this is a good idea at all. Commented Jan 12, 2015 at 1:22
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    But it defines \toprule etc., right? So loading booktabs overwrites those definitions. Commented Jan 12, 2015 at 2:03
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    @DavidCarlisle After these comments, it's hard to figure out what's the right way to proceed and whether the definitions get overwritten... Commented Aug 2, 2017 at 13:31
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This problem was already solved in RevTeX 4.2e (released October 5, 2020)

https://journals.aps.org/revtex

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    You are not wrong, but your answer mentions revtex4-2, but OP uses the deprecated revtex4 (so it doesn't really answer the original question). Nothing was changed in this area in RevTeX (and there are no plans to update RevTeX 4 and 4.1 in this regard in the future) Commented Apr 8, 2021 at 16:11

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