Matthew wrote:

Latex output changed in more ways:

 * Table content is vertically centered by default, making it more
   consistent with HTML.

 * In a table cell, a paragraph with a `#f' style name is rendered as a
   single line (as before), but a width is imposed on paragraphs that
   have a style name to make them flow as paragraphs.

For what it's worth, I found the documentation on tables largely incomprehensible, and could not get them to render through LaTeX without everything all mushed together. I finally wrote my own table function (using \array, which spaces things out well) that had the formatting I wanted. Cell styles? No clue.

Apropos of which, I don't know how to produce pure raw LaTeX code from within Scribble. I can usually cheat with things like

(make-element
    (make-style "begin" '(exact-chars)) ...)

or (make-style "relax" ...), but for LaTeX package macros that parse one of their arguments more exactly (where wrapping the argument in \relax{...} will not work), I have to resort to building what I want at a high enough level that I can wrap it all in \relax without LaTeX getting upset. I feel like I'm pretty much doing what the LaTeX renderer does, but trying to stay within a higher-level API. If we want Scribble to be a LaTeX replacement but still render through LaTeX, it might need more thinking as to how to provide access in a Rackety fashion.

Sorry if I'm being completely ignorant here. I'm a passable Racket programmer but a lousy LaTeX programmer. --PR
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