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I am using eqparbox and want to right-justify a number of words (separated by a newline). I tried to use \raggedleft but it complains with the error:

Error: ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.


Here is a code sample to illustrate the problem:

\documentclass{article ...

Problem redefining newline in tabular environment

I'm new to TeX/LaTeX and I have a problem with the following:

\documentclass{article}

\def\nl{\tabularnewline & x } %\let\\\nl} % uncomment to work
\def\elem#1{\let\\\nl #1}
\def\mgroup#1#2{#1 & x \elem{#2}}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{l|l ...

Thank you kindly for your reply. Though I still hope someone can fix my environments {intellectual itch}, I am grateful to have an alternative solution to my problem.

I have a table with two columns inside which I want to use a custom environment called "mgroup". This environment is defined as follows:

\newenvironment{mgroup}[1]{#1 &}{\tabularnewline}

An example of how I use it:

\begin{tabular}{ll}%
\begin{mgroup}{g1}%
one%
\end{mgroup}%
\begin{mgroup}{g2 ...