Hi Peter,
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:05:19 -0600, Peter Münster <pmli...@free.fr> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15 2010, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Question for all: for MkIV, should we recommend ONLY natural tables to
newcomers, e.g., in a ConTeXt Book?
Hello Idris,
For me, it's yes! But newcomers need to pay attention in some cases:
- alignment (see issue http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=427 )
- TABLEhead is repeated, TABLEfoot is not
(see issue http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=116 )
Sure, hopefully by the time we get to that point the bugs will be fixed.
I also see that Wolfgang has wrapped some of the old Tables syntax into a
module (as Aditya hinted)... I missed all of these developments :-)
The Tables syntax is certainly less verbose, and may be useful for
beginners. But for pedagogical purposes it makes sense to consider
Table/Tables deprecated, if not obsolete... So the pedagogical challenge
is to make TABLE as easy as possible, perhaps teaching \start/stopTABLE as
intro and \b/eTABLE as advanced.
Best wishes
Idris
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Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shīʿī Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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