My comments were motivated by Master Knuth's influence from reading TUGboat vol.35 no.1 p.5 (see below)
"The TeX Tuneup of 2014". Rather than suppressing creativity, a sound and stable platform base enables it. PanAxiom is not that yet. The ")set" issue was the jumping off point to support that. I see what you mean if someone wants to write an output routine that meets their needs; no problem. I doubt most people will be doing things like that; stability first; developers are another breed of cat. Knuth: The index to Digital Typography lists eleven pages where the importance of stability is stressed, and I urge all maintainers of TEX and to read them again every few years. Any object of nontrivial complexity is non-optimum, in the sense that it can be improved in some way (while still remaining non-optimum); therefore there’s always a rea- son to change anything that isn’t trivial. But one of TEX’s principal advantages is the fact that it does not change — except for serious flaws whose correction is unlikely to affect more than a very tiny number of archival doc- uments. Cheers, Gene On Jun 27, 2014, at 5:05 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> \begin{array} is the "native" LaTeX book invocation >> of an "array" environment; if somebody has added >> a "pmatrix" environment, I personally would avoid >> using it in anything I wrote unless it is in the >> current LaTeX2e (or beyond) standard. > > Ralf is trying to do something constructive with documentation > and no solution is perfect. I think he should be given the > freedom to experiment. All of these complaints feel like > "bike-shedding". > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike_shed > > That said, anybody using Axiom tex/latex output would be expected > to \usepackage{axiom}. There are Axiom-specific commands that I > have written (such as the chunk environment) and I would expect > to be able to use them in output formats. > > Tim
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