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Maybe an anomaly introduced by LaTeX's re-definition of \input. The
following works OK.<br>
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<tt>% !TeX Program=XeLaTeX</tt><tt>
</tt>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; line-height:100%;"><tt><br>
</tt></p>
<tt>
</tt>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;"><tt>\documentclass [12pt] {article}</tt></p>
<tt>
</tt>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;"><tt>\begin {document}</tt></p>
<tt>
</tt>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;"><tt> \begin {tabular}{|cr|}</tt></p>
<tt>
</tt>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;"><tt> \hline</tt></p>
<tt>
</tt>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;"><tt> \primitive \input mytable.tex</tt></p>
<tt>
</tt>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;"><tt> \hline</tt></p>
<tt>
</tt>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;"><tt> \end {tabular}</tt></p>
<tt>
</tt>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
line-height:100%;"><tt>\end {document}</tt></p>
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-- <br>
<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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