[OS X TeX] R, paradigm to bring into the LaTeX world?

[Paul Smyth]

Quick question Martin,

If \atop is deprecated in LaTeX, what's it's replacement?

Paul Smyth
Ireland

On 23 Oct 2006, at 21:35, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Claus Gerhardt wrote:
> []
>> command, I probably would have, so that with a simple mouse click  
>> he could have opened the documentation and a search for \atop  
>> would have given him the information in five seconds. Even, if he  
>> didn't remember that \atop is part of amsmath googling would have  
>> provided this information in another five seconds; that's why I  
>> called his request unnecessary.
>
> Just a small remark: Five seconds in this example was too short, it  
> did not allow you to read what you found.
>
> \atop is *not* an amsmath command. It is mentioned in the amsmath  
> documentation, but only because its use generates a warning. It is  
> a TeX primitive, deprecated in LaTeX, but still working. Its syntax  
> is defined and explained in the TeXbook, and on the web it is  
> reachable from inside a tetex distribution via the file texmf-dist/ 
> doc/latex/tex-refs/tex.html which has a link to http://www.tug.org/ 
> utilities/plain/cseq.html , a complete list of TeX commands. For  
> \atop, this gives detailed explanations on the page http:// 
> www.tug.org/utilities/plain/cseq.html#atop-rp
>
> If you want to bookmark something, I would recommend the page  
> <http://www.tug.org/tetex/tetex-texmfdist/doc/latex/tex-refs/ 
> index.html> or the corresponding file on your harddisk if it comes  
> with your tetex distribution.
>
> -- 
> Martin
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