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, d...@axiom-developer.org 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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