Max Nikulin writes: > My impression is that tabularray has an ambitious goal to replace all > current table packages. I have no idea if other packages will adopt > similar approach with regexp-based parsing instead of usual expanding > of TeX commands.
Yes, that's the impression I have too. Tabularray certainly solves a lot of traditional LaTeX table problems (unfortunately not the one we're dealing with). Time will tell if it also creates other new problems. In any case, it brings a lot of flexibility to a part of LaTeX, tables, that has always suffered from a certain constriction. We'll see what happens. LaTeX is becoming very complex and now several layers coexist, since the jump to LaTeX 3 is going to be gradual. On the other hand, I don't know if the latex core developers have a cleaner \\ command in their roadmap, without those absurd current problems (and that LaTeX has been carrying for almost 40 years). > I do not like necessity to add \NewTableCommand\empty{} to documents > somehow (only if tabularray is loaded). I do not have an idea better > than \\[0pt] and an optimizing filter to remove [0pt] in almost all > cases. I totally agree. Best regards, Juan Manuel