tables wiki reads at the moment:
tables is about the
tabular
environment and related packages such as array, booktabs, tabularx and longtable. For questions about thetable
environment (i.e., about floating or positioning), use floats instead.There are many packages that extend the basic functionality of the
tabular
environment. A good overview of packages (and package conflicts) can be found in Which tabular packages do which tasks and which packages conflict?.If your question involves one of these specific packages (or another tabular package not listed), you should add a tag for that package as well as the tables tag.
So a LaTeX-specific wiki as it stands. All of the above relate to horizontal alignment. I think I've always tagged \halign
questions with horizontal-alignment, and so was wondering what purpose does the tables tag represent since it outrules table
(for floats), and isn't specifically about tabular (since its name is tables and not tabular). On the one hand, \halign
questions could be in tables just as well as tables could be horizontal-alignment. It should be noted that tabular
uses \halign
internally, and \halign
comes from “horizontal alignment”.
To me it would seem logical if tables was a synonym for horizontal-alignment, and for actual tabular
questions there would be a tag tabular.
What do you think?
Speaking of horizontal-alignment, I find the current wiki rather confusing:
horizontal-alignment is about aligning document elements horizontally, e.g. typesetting paragraphs using
\centering
or\raggedright
or adjusting the horizontal position of several equation or table components. If your question is generally about (horizontal) white space, use spacing instead.
, because, as I understand, neither \centering
, nor \raggedright
actually align anything.
Maybe those two could fit into a tag like paragraph-shape or similar?
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. I merely copied the actual markup from the tag and then to correct the remaining tags I searched and replaced to get from{
to[tag:
and from}
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(search and replace I did in an external editor).