Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ error when using colortbl, longtable and input

[aidanc]

Hi,

I get a misplaced noalign error when I try to input a longtable
which has a \rowcolor command.

The code seems to work when pasted in, instead of input,
but I need to use input as the table is automatically generated.

Any help or workaround would be greatly appreciated.

thanks
Aidan

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\documentclass[10.5pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[table,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{longtable}

\begin{document}
\begin{longtable}{
r %1
r %2
} 
\caption[short]{TITLE \label{LABEL}}\\
		\input{consol.tex}
\end{longtable}
		
\end{document}

the file consol.tex contains:

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\rowcolor[gray]{0.5}
Norway &2010  \\

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Aidan,

this example should work. Could you please post the .log file here, as attachment? There's an "Upload attachment" link below the edit text field, when writing, for this.

Stefan

[aidanc]

Hi Stefan,

thanks for the quick reply. Should be attached now.

cheers,
Aidan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Interesting! I guess it's because \input cannot be expanded. It works with \@@input, but we need to use \makeatletter and \makeatother then:

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\documentclass[10.5pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[table,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{longtable}
\begin{document}
\makeatletter
\begin{longtable}{
r %1
r %2
}
\caption{TITLE \label{LABEL}}\\
  \@@input consol.tex
\end{longtable}
\makeatother
\end{document}

Stefan

[aidanc]

Thanks Stefan, I'm glad you can understand it because it's a bit beyond me!

From now on I'll enclose each of my longtables in the makeatletter commands and use @@ input. I guess this might be safer than having the commands at the start and end of the doc, as from my reading it seems they can interfere with other commands.

thanks for your help!
Aidan