Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Problem with tables with REVTeX 4

[ridox]

Hi,
Recently I have been having troubles with REVTeX 4 and tables. Until yesterday everything was working fine, but know I have this error:

!Undefined control sequence.
\CT@setup ->\@tempdimp \col@sep
\@tempdimc \col@sep \def \CT@color {\global...
1.21 \begin{tabular}{|cc|}
?


My code is:

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\documentclass[a4paper,superscriptaddress,prb,showkeys]{revtex4}
\topmargin 0cm
\textwidth 15.5 cm
\textheight 21.5 cm
\oddsidemargin 0cm
\evensidemargin 1cm
\setlength{\parindent}{3mm}
\setlength{\parskip}{2mm}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{ctable}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{subfloat}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|cc|}
  \hline
  1 & 2 \\
  3 & 4 \\
  \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

I am working with W7, Winedt 6.0 and MikTek 2.8

Does anyone see a problem??
I am thinking that for some unknown reason the package unconfigure it some how...
in that is the case... how can i uninstall REVTeX 4...
Thanks in advance for your help.

R

[localghost]

It's an incompatibility between the (old) revtex4 class and the colortbl package. It already occurs when loading the package and creating a simple table as in your example.

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\documentclass[a4paper,superscriptaddress,prb,showkeys]{revtex4}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}   % loads »colortbl«

\begin{document}
  \begin{tabular}{|cc|}\hline
    1 & 2 \\
    3 & 4 \\ \hline
  \end{tabular}
\end{document}

Use the current revtex4-1 class and study its manual. Perhaps some specifications and class options have changed.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[ridox]

Thanks localhost
It works, I just change:
\documentclass[12pt,aps,prd, superscritptaddress]{revtex4}
to
\documentclass[12pt,aps,prd, superscritptaddress]{revtex4-1}

I also found another incompatibility...

I cannot force the table to be at the bottom, e.g.

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\begin{tabular}[!b]{|cc|}
  \hline
  1 & 2 \\
  3 & 4 \\
  \hline
\end{tabular}

I don't need it, so I just remove the !. But could be good to know if someone know the solution... probably I will read the manual in more detail.

Thx

[localghost]

[…] I also found another incompatibility […]

No, you didn't. You just mixed up the optional parameters.

• For the tabular environment there are optional parameters (b,t) for alignment with respect to the current line.
• For the table environment there are optional parameters for floating placement in the document (!,b,h,p,t)

And by the way, page and paper dimensions are better set up by the geometry package. Your method is far from being recommendable.