On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 13:39, Hans Hagen wrote:
Concerning \starttable: I started merging the patches into the TaBlE code but also started wondering if we should still provide this mechanism in \MKIV. I'm considering making it a module, and then remove the color options from it as it's a kludge anyway. Using thi smechanism has no real advantages over tabulate or TABLE (apart maybe from speed).
I use \starttable all over the place. The reason is that it is (or maybe was) the only one that supported \VL (tabulate didn't support \VL), while \bTABLE ... \eTABLE has really awfull spacing between cells (too much vertical spacing and too little horizontal one). It definitely depends on usage, but in many cases \starttable was the only choice for me. It seems weird to simply get rid of it at once and for no particular reason. (I don't care if it doesn't support colors.) Mojca