On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:37:55PM +0200, Michael Schmitt wrote:
> I have noticed that you have changed the LaTeX output. IIRC, the
> original problem was that LaTeX does not accept
>
> \textsf{ ... \begin{tabular} ... \end{tabular} ... }
>
> I checked your new solution and there seem to be some problems if you
> use ERTs aggressively. Furthermore, a table does no longer inherit any
> character properties from its surrounding paragraph. This may be
> disadvantageous because you cannot define a table in "scriptsize". Of
> course, you can shrink the text in each cell individually but that is
> not the same (empty cells are bigger). I still believe there is a rather
> simple solution for the problem above. Just output
>
> {\sf ... }
This should be {\sffamily ...}
> instead
>
> \textsf{ ... }
>
> I tested it once a while and it worked perfectly.
The problem is that not all font commands have {\command } form.
Furthermore, \textit{} is preferable over {\itshape } as the latter inserts
italics correction automatically, while the latter doesn't.
