Hi Peter,
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:05:19 -0600, Peter Münster
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 -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523