71.8 Html Tables

We need the \HTable{...} version for handling TeX tables and for not modifying ‘&’ with other catcode or replacement command. Otherwise, \HTable...\EndHtable are better because that don’t ask for expandable stuff.

<..HTable..>
 \def\HTable{%
    \let\:TR=\empty
    \let\TABLE:=\empty
    \futurelet\:temp\T:ABLE}
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Defining the \HTable in terms of \halign is problematic for a few reasons.

1. Paragraph breaks are treated as space characters within \halign. Defining\par to equal \the\ht:everypar causes multiple calls to \ht:everypar.

2. Don’t know how to get the </TABLE> in place.

3. Well, so far I [got]

4. What about paragraph breaks in independent HTable? Are we loosing them as is the case in the following example.

   [??]

   Also, do we have consistent behavior between TeX and LaTeX here?