Timeline for Trouble with \begin{tabulary} vs. \tabulary
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| Dec 10, 2017 at 23:09 | comment | added | Dominick Pastore | That seems to be getting deeper into the theory of LaTeX than I was familiar with. I wasn't aware environments created any special kind of grouping--I was thinking \newcommand and \newenvironment functioned more or less the way C preprocessor macros work, like fancy text substitution. It sounds like I still have a lot to read up on. | |
| Dec 10, 2017 at 21:01 | comment | added | David Carlisle | actually tabulary doesn't mention \tabulary at all in the user-facing documentation so there is no reason to say it isn't allowed. the \tabulary in an environment definition feature is only indirectly documented as it's the same mechanism as tabularx (where this is better documented) for most latex environments you can not replace \begin{foo}..\end{foo} by \foo..\endfoo at the very least you lose the enviornment grouping by doing that. So you would not expect every package documentation to explicitly say you can not do this, it will not work in general. | |
| Dec 10, 2017 at 20:52 | comment | added | Dominick Pastore | Also, I tried reading the documentation for tabulary, suspecting this might not be allowed, but with my somewhat primitive (though hopefully growing) knowledge of TeX/LaTeX, I couldn't tell whether it was forbidden. Or supported. Maybe I was looking at outdated documentation, but I don't think so. | |
| Dec 10, 2017 at 20:38 | vote | accept | Dominick Pastore | ||
| Dec 10, 2017 at 20:38 | comment | added | Dominick Pastore | I was using it outside \newenvironment to try and iron out some kinks with my macros. When the macros weren't working the way I expected, I tried making a non-macro version to see whether I made a mistake "macroizing" them or if my LaTeX code I was macroizing was just wrong. | |
| Dec 10, 2017 at 20:05 | answer | added | David Carlisle | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 10, 2017 at 20:01 | comment | added | David Carlisle | the \tabulary syntax is not supported in a document, why would you want to do that? | |
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| Dec 10, 2017 at 19:34 | history | asked | Dominick Pastore | CC BY-SA 3.0 |