From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2791 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \bTABLE and \eTABLE Date: 22 Sep 2000 09:16:26 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <39CB4D2A.A623212E@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393565 11851 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:19:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:19:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Berend de Boer In-Reply-To: Berend de Boer's message of "Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:14:34 +0200" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2791 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2791 Berend de Boer writes: > Hello All, > > Up to now every context `environment' used \start.. \stop... > \bTABLE..\eTABLE breaks with that tradition. My suggestion therefore is > to rename \bTABLE and \eTABLE to \startautotable and \stopautotable. > > What do people think? Above all, what does Hans think? Well, it reminds me of a thought I had when I first saw the bTABLE / eTABLE commands: I thought that we users were supposed to try to use mixed-case names for the commands that we make up so as to avoid clashes with context commands. So I was surprised to see a new mixed-case context command. I'm torn, though. Tables are so handy that I bet I would be grateful for the brevity of the new table syntax. I like the short commands. They are not only easier to type; they also make the table more easy to read in the source, since they don't get in the way. -- --Ed Cashin PGP public key: ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/