Which table environment?

[Felix Ingram <f.ingram.lists@gmail.com>]

Hello all,

I've been playing with the various table environments but I thought
I'd seek advice as to which would be the best for my requirements.

I need to be able to do the following:

- Repeating header row with coloured background and text (I can get
this working with TABLE but not tabulate).
- Multi-page tables (TABLE and tabulate are fine with these).
- Insert images in a cell (TABLE seems to handle this better than tabulate).
- Have rows that will split across pages - we will have large pieces
of text and images which will end up being taller than the page.
(tabulates paragraph support is the right sort of thing)
- Start next row on current page.
- Include other tables, lists etc in a cell (this is a "nice to have"
rather than a "must have")

The reason I need these various things is because Word acts this way
and I need to produce something similar (until we can argue for a
format change).

At the moment I'm leaning towards tabulate but I'm having issues with
images and the headers. I'm using Mk IV (bonus question: as a newbie,
should I just start with IV and ignore II? Or is II better for any
particular reason?).

Thanks in advance,

Felix
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