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Rowspans. Coloured backgrounds. Non-standard borders. Vertical alignment (the LaTeX version of this does not do anything intuitive). And if you ask TeX people
by dash2 5y ago
Rowspans. Coloured backgrounds. Non-standard borders. Vertical alignment (the LaTeX version of this does not do anything intuitive).
And if you ask TeX people how to do these things, they will tell you you don’t need to, at which point you will die a little inside.
I should add that I disagree that TeX has a good solution for decimal-point aligned columns. It has an absurd solution which involves dividing the column into two “columns”. As with many TeX features, as soon as you want to do this programmatically, it becomes a nightmare.(I don’t claim that any other markup languages are better at this – HTML still sucks for it - though Excel may do okay.)
- taeric 5y agoI am probably more aligned with the folks that don't like colors and such. I hasten to add that for interactive and color screens, I change my mind. Agreed that the TeX solution is bad if you want semantic markup of a table. If you abandon the idea of selective fields, it doesn't seem that bad to me.