Not really... \usepackage{tabulary} gives me the X column type \usepackage{multirow} does what the name says \usepackage{longtable} is the most useful one \

Not really... \usepackage{tabulary} gives me the X column type \usepackage{multirow} does what the name says \usepackage{longtable} is the most useful one \usepackage{booktabs} adds -toprule-, -midrule-, -bottomrule- \usepackage{threeparttable} adds titles and notes to tables \usepackage{threeparttablex} extends -threeparttable- to work with -longtable \usepackage{siunitx} allows decimal alignment \usepackage{array} some table column types require arraybackslash \usepackage{varwidth} helps in setting a max column type \usepackage{ragged2e} because \raggedright used in table footnotes would otherwise break hyphenation \usepackage{afterpage} defers typesetting of the longtable environment to the top of the next page \usepackage{etoolbox} helps to write monospace numbers in tables And then I add all the newcommands, and end up with pretty tables but very fragile wrt changes in the latex environment