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evlabiba · Post by **evlabiba** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:30 pm

Hello
Why do I get a "Misplaced \noalign" error message when I use \hline outside the tabular environment?

\begin{document}
  \hline
  Hello, \TeX{}-perts!
  \hline
\end{document}

I'm a MikTeX 2.7 user.

Thx.

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Post by **localghost** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:35 pm

evlabiba wrote:[...] Why do I get a "Misplaced \noalign" error message when I use \hline outside the tabular environment? [...]

It is simply not allowed to use this command outside a tabular environment. Replace \hline with \hrule and it will work.

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Thorsten¹

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