2010/7/16 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <isha...@colostate.edu>
> 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. > > > A top-down approach 1) \bTABLE 2) \starttabulate 3) chapter 22 of TeXbook 1) is much easy than 2) which is much easy than 3 1) is slower than 2) which is slower than 3) -- luigi
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