Tabu Alternatives

tabu reviews and mentions

• Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex
  14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jul 2024

  LaTeX's support is already problematic. Most people just don't use it in sufficient intensity to notice. We produce thousands of (mostly) hand written technical reports a year using LaTeX and there are all sorts of subtle issues cropping up. It's a distribution of many, many packages from many developers, and maintenance can be spotty and vary. Unlike some people would like to believe, stuff breaks all the time.

  Check this out for example: https://github.com/tabu-issues-for-future-maintainer/tabu

  This used to be the most recommended package for tables.

  This bug is still not fixed after at least 9 years AFAIK: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/203629/longtable-and...

  It affects us regularly.

  I'm not even going to comment on the fact that all of the following packages provide some sort of tabular feature: array, table, tabu, tabular, tabularx, longtable, supertabular, longtabu, xltabular, lxtable, booktabs, tabularray, ctable. Good luck figuring out which one does what you need and has the least side effects with everything else.

  Also, while I'm not familiar with the internals of the LaTeX project, I keep reading the same names, most of which appear to be getting closer and closer to retirement. I wonder if suitable successors will pick up the task of maintaining LaTeX in the future.

• Seeking table help.
  1 project | /r/LaTeX | 29 Mar 2022

  Note: tabu is currently broken and unmaintained