On 21.04.25 02:51, Dave Kemper wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM Ingo Schwarze < schwa...@usta.de > wrote:
> > So just deleting it would still be the best option even now. > > A better option is deprecating it > ( http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64772 ). It could emit a warning that > it's unmaintained. But, unlike deletion, this would allow users who > find it useful (and there were more than one even before this thread; > see the preceding URL) to continue to be able to use it, and it would > retain the test coverage also cited in that ticket. It didn't take long to bone up on original tbl, and it just works, even if quite differently in terms of input. There's ample documentation, which describes automatically repeating the heading when a table runs over several pages. That alone is worth the switch. I can't see myself going back to hdtbl now, even if it is fixed, so it's users-- there, I suspect. Erik
