[texhax] Problem with tabular environment
Barbara Beeton
bnb at ams.org
Mon Mar 12 16:27:14 CET 2007
michael barr is having problems with a tabular:
The following file,
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|b{1cm}|b{1cm}|b{1cm}|}\hline
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1&2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2&3 3 3 3\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
copied from the bottom of p. 106 in the first
edition of The LaTex Companion, results in the error message:
! LaTeX Error: Illegal character in array arg.
[...]
Any idea what is going on? Incidentally, it compiles properly when the
b{1cm} are replaced by p{1cm}, but that is not the output I want.
the problem is, you aren't using the array package.
the 2nd edition of the companion is a little more
clear in its example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
the particular code you're using is an extension.
-- bb
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