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This it all makes perfect sense and is all quite logical now you mention it, I guess it is something else to get used to and look out for in the future.

Is that really all that it was? :oops:
Blimey! Well thank you for that it has indeed fixed my issue!

I take it that is why I keep seeing % after } all over other folks code? I assumed that the % and everything after it was just ignored, I take it the tex parser ignores EVERYTHING till the end of ...

I have been working on some manuals that display table in a longtable environment using a counter on a line.
A command has been created to fill in a row in the table for ease of use, this command has an optional argument and it would appear that that particular argument messes us the centering of ...

Yes non programmers will be doing manuals, at least I hope they will! Though Im sure I will face some opposition from some of them as we all dislike writing manuals with a passion! Though I must admit working though the manuals this way is proving more fun/interesting than normal :D .

I hadn't ...

Thank you again for the reply.

As latex is pretty new to me I am trying to avoid doing non-recommend things but I am going to have to see how the on the fly counters workout for me. Admittedly maybe I am using the macros too much but we will see.....

I must admit I am not looking forward to ...

Thankyou for the information and code.

It will take me a while to digest all that code as I am fairly new to latex and certainly new to that level of coding.

You say that defining counters on the fly isn't a good idea, how would you recommend me assigning a counter to my own table environment then ...

Hi,

I have started using Latex to do our company manuals, everything seemed to be going well, apart from the odd hiccup.
Part of these manuals have tables of information, one of the rows needs to include the number of rows in the particular table.

This all seemed to work well using the totcount ...