Re: Complex Table in texinfo

[Karl Berry]

    The manual needs table with border.

But why?  Your example seems like a simple table of equivalent numbers
in various bases.  This will be readable enough without rules.  It is
better than resorting to TeX, anyway.

It would be nice to be able to have rules in tables, but it's just not
implemented (in texinfo.tex).

    "! Undefined command @begin {tabular}

The main problem here is that you are using LaTeX commands.  Texinfo is
written on top of plain TeX, not LaTeX.  You need to use the \halign and
\hrule primitives.  Also, you don't want to use @iftex ... @end iftex,
just @tex ... @end tex.

I strongly recommend forgetting the raw TeX stuff, and just write the
text as a @multitable, and accept the not-necessarily-optimal results.

Hope this helps,
karl