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 Re: Arrays David Carlisle <[log in to unmask]> Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:48:13 +0100 text/plain (55 lines) I sent the following reply but the list bounced it (as I wasn't subscribed as davidc@nag:-) so I'll resend now. In the meantime I see Donald Arseneau also replied. Fortunately I think his reply agrees with this! David Date: 14 Apr 1998 17:58:54 +0100 From: David Carlisle <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]> (message         from Volker Schubert on Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:07:32 +0200) Subject: Re: Arrays Reply-To: [log in to unmask] > The problem here is that there is no minimal vertical space between > the lines. There are some packages which extend the latex system to provide for a mininmum amount of white space above the table entries. Unfortunately doing this makes the packages usually incompatible to a greater or lesser extent to each other and to other latex table packages. But tabls.sty mdwtab.sty and colortab.sty all offer something along these lines. Not specifically for math material, your example, but more generally forcing the table system to insert a minimum amount of space between each line. It is hard to come up with a really good solution to this while preserving the existing latex syntax for rules and inter-column material such as @{...}. It is not essential that all latex array packages preserve the existing syntax, but coming up with an alternative has not proved too easy in the past! > It would be nice if there was a generalized equation environment, > where one can give arbitrary preambles for the horizontal alignment. what sort of things do you want to specify. Not the syntax, which is not so important, but what arbitrary' information do you have in mind? > if there was an argument-switch in the > alignment-environment where one could turn on \displaymode in > every column''. I'm tempted to say do \begin{everymath}{\displaystyle} \begin{array}{cc} \sum_1^2x & \frac{a}{b} \end{array} \end{everymath} but perhaps that makes more display mode than you intended. David `