TEXTURES vs TEXTURE1/2

[Reaku]

I've been working with TEXTURES, getting used to it, I like it, but there is one thing I'm finding that's actually making me stop and think for a moment. It seems that TEXTURES is larger than TEXTURE1, since one is in a text file, the other is loaded into a doom specific lump meant for it.
I guess my question goes to, which one would actually be classified as better? Not in terms of file size, but over all.

[Qent]

TEXTURES. It can do everything in TEXTURE1/2 and more, text format is easier to read and modify, and the size difference isn't significant with all the graphics and sound files that will be floating around.

[Reaku]

TEXTURES. It can do everything in TEXTURE1/2 and more, text format is easier to read and modify, and the size difference isn't significant with all the graphics and sound files that will be floating around.

That is noted, one of the things I like about TEXTURES is how easy it is to modify it if there's a change, it also allows me to keep things in order.
There is just one problem that I run into, and that's the fact that when I modify TEXTURES using the same interface as TEXTURES1/2, it screws up my text file into somethings horrible.

[infurnus]

There is just one problem that I run into, and that's the fact that when I modify TEXTURES using the same interface as TEXTURES1/2, it screws up my text file into somethings horrible.

That's because TEXTURE1 and TEXTURE2 are native to Doom's original formatting, and TEXTURES is a newer ZDoom feature that is not backwards compatible.

Further reading:
http://zdoom.org/wiki/TEXTURES
http://doomwiki.org/wiki/TEXTURE1_and_TEXTURE2

[Reaku]

There is just one problem that I run into, and that's the fact that when I modify TEXTURES using the same interface as TEXTURES1/2, it screws up my text file into somethings horrible.

That's because TEXTURE1 and TEXTURE2 are native to Doom's original formatting, and TEXTURES is a newer ZDoom feature that is not backwards compatible.

Further reading:
http://zdoom.org/wiki/TEXTURES
http://doomwiki.org/wiki/TEXTURE1_and_TEXTURE2

I read those, considering I hang around the wikis a lot. It's mostly the fact I hit a conflicting thought and started second guessing everything, so I came here to help settle it.

[Lollipop]

I use slade3 for textures (when I actually do anything with a texture), I just click on the texture manager and it ask what format i want, then I just choose the zdoom textures and edit away.