Re: Macros for table creation

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

On Wed, Feb 23 2022,Ikumi Keita wrote:

> Hi Sivaram,
>

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> When AUCTeX asks format for tabular env., respond with some non-empty
> answer such as c|l|r. Then you'll get suitable number of "&" signs like
> this:
> \begin{table}
>   \centering
>   \begin{tabular}[t]{c|l|r}
>     &&
>   \end{tabular}
>   \caption{abc}
>   \label{tab:1}
> \end{table}
>
> It doesn't provide "\\". However, you can insert it by C-c C-j or M-RET
> (LaTeX-insert-item) at the last of the respective line, which provides
> you suitable number of "&" signs again on the next line.

Can this and other macros put in some defaults when the macro
questions are being asked?  for float positions, table alignments,
rule lines, # of colummns etc?  I mostly have to look up documentation
making the macro superfluous.

sivaram
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