Daniel Carrera wrote:
I use tables in the patch theory section for navigation ('Prev', 'Up'
and 'Next' links) and for presentation (e.g. showing a patch on the
left and its effect on the right, or showing a patch on the left, and
its inverse on the right).
With respect, it sounds like you're obsessing about the presentation of
the document. That's not the author's job, it's the typesetter's job.
Presentation is not an unimportant thing that you can just forget about
and just let the broken type-setter do what it will. As an experienced
math teacher and an experienced technical writer, I know that how you
present a concept (even graphically) can make a big difference to how
quickly the audience picks up the concept. I have learned similar things
when I studied UI design and so on. Some UI layouts can make a concept
feel more natural to the reader and can often be more effective than a
lengthy explanation.
At this point it might be helpful to remind the reader that not
everybody would agree on whether putting a patch on the left and its
result on the right constitutes "presentation". For example, you
wouldn't expect LaTeX to put the patch on the left and the result on the
right unless you used a table.
Daniel.
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