[pracjourn-forum] Weird error with solution

[Peter Flom]

I think someone on this list was collecting odd error messages.

Here's one.

Using booktabs, if you leave out the \\ in the line before \bottomrule
you get

<<<

] (present.vrb
! Misplaced \noalign.
\bottomrule ->\noalign 
                       {\ifnum 0=`}\fi \@aboverulesep =\aboverulesep
\global...
l.13     \bottomrule
 >>>

which, at least to me, is not a model of clarity

and, if you type H you get
<<<
I expect to see \noalign only after the \cr of
an alignment. Proceed, and I'll ignore this case.
>>>

which does little to actually help.

I think an article on odd errors might be cool.....

Peter



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