[texhax] Problem with tabular environment

[Micha Hofri]

Michael,  that example is given in the context of discussing the 
extensions defined in the package array...

Add the indicated \usepackage{array} and all is well.

--Micha Hofri

At 11:10 on 03/12/07 Michael Barr sent:

: 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.
: 
: See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
: Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
:   ...
: 
: l.4 \begin{tabular}{|b{1cm}|b{1cm}|b{1cm}|}
:                                             \hline
: ? x
: 
: Here is the header of the log file:
: 
: This is e-TeXk, Version 3.141592-2.1 (Web2c 7.5.2) (format=latex 2004.4.9) 
: 12 MAR 2007 10:27
: entering extended mode
:   %&-line parsing enabled.
:   (c:/TeXLive8/texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
: **t
: (./t.tex
: LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
: Babel <v3.7j> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, 
: nohyphenation, ba
: sque, czech, slovak, german, ngerman, spanish, catalan, french, ukenglish, 
: ital
: ian, dutch, polish, portuguese, loaded.
: (c:/TeXLive8/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
: Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
: (c:/TeXLive8/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
: File: size10.clo 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX file (size option)
: )
: 
: etc.
: 
: 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.
: 
: 
: