Volker Schubert <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >1) The array/tabular environments are intended for tabulars with >constant baseline-distance. The baselineskip-mechanism of TeX is >turned off (\lineskip=0pt). LaTeX works with struts instead. The >problem here is that there is no minimal vertical space between the lines. >But in some situations it would be desirable, if vertical space >would be inserted automatically. tabls.sty... "one of these days" I will make an array-package-compatible version. If you don't have vertical lines it is easy -- just set \lineskip back again! That's booktabs.sty. Yes, this is one of the many features of table formatting that must be put in LaTex3. >2) Sometimes it happens that one wants some mathematical material >to be ``displayed'', but this material has to be aligned >horizontally. If one wants \displaystyle, one has to switch to >\displaystyle in every column by hand (or define a new columntype). I think a new (user defined) column type *is* the answer. >The easiest way would be, if there was an argument-switch in the >alignment-environment where one could turn on ``\displaymode in >every column''. \everymath{\displaystyle}. But it's not great. Donald Arseneau [log in to unmask]