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+# The LaTeX3 package `tabularray`
+
+```
+Package: Typeset tabulars and arrays with LaTeX3
+Copyright: 2021-2024 (c) Jianrui Lyu <[email protected]>
+CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/tabularray
+Repository: https://github.com/lvjr/tabularray
+Repository: https://bitbucket.org/lvjr/tabularray
+License: The LaTeX Project Public License 1.3c
+```
+
+## 1\. Introduction
+
+LaTeX tables are implemented using TeX commands such as `\halign`, `\noalign`, `\span`, and `\omit`.
+In order to implement new features, many macro packages have modified the inner table commands inside LaTeX.
+This makes package code complicated, difficult to maintain, and often conflicts with each other.
+
+At present, the LaTeX3 programming layer is basically mature.
+This `tabularray` package will discard the old `\halign` commands and directly use LaTeX3 functions to parse the table,
+and then typeset the entire table.
+Under the premise of being compatible with the basic syntax of LaTeX2 tables,
+this macro package will completely separate the contents and styles of the table,
+and the styles of the table can be completely set in key-value way.
+
+## 2\. Contributing
+
+To make the upcoming releases more stable, you are very welcome to test the latest package file in the repository.
+To test it, you only need to download [`tabularray.sty`](https://github.com/lvjr/tabularray/raw/main/tabularray.sty)
+and put it into the folder of your TeX documents.
+
+If you want to make a contribution to `tabularray` package, you can get necessary informations from [CONTRIBUTING.txt](https://github.com/lvjr/tabularray/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.txt) file.
+The following are all contributors to the package:
+
+  - [dbitouze](https://github.com/lvjr/tabularray/commits?author=dbitouze) (Denis Bitouzé)
+  - [IsaacOscar](https://github.com/lvjr/tabularray/commits?author=IsaacOscar) (Isaac Oscar Gariano)
+  - [krlmlr](https://github.com/lvjr/tabularray/commits?author=krlmlr) (Kirill Müller)
+  - [mbertucci47](https://github.com/lvjr/tabularray/commits?author=mbertucci47) (Matthew Bertucci)
+  - [muzimuzhi](https://github.com/lvjr/tabularray/commits?author=muzimuzhi) (Yukai Chou)
+  - [pkl97](https://github.com/lvjr/tabularray/commits?author=pkl97)
+  - [qinglee](https://github.com/lvjr/tabularray/commits?author=qinglee) (Qing Lee)
+  - [SainoNamkho](https://github.com/lvjr/tabularray/commits?author=SainoNamkho)
+  - [Yodude2002](https://github.com/lvjr/tabularray/commits?author=Yodude2002)