why doesn't my \cline work??

Jonas Bofjall

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Mar 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/3/97

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I have done the following table which begins:

--snip-

\begin{tabular}{*{16}{|c}|}
\hline
9 & 10 & 11 & 12 & 13 & 14 & 15 & 16 & 17 & 18 & 19 & 20 & 21 & 22 & 23 & 24\\
\cline{1-2} \cline{4-10} \cline{12-16}

--snip-

But when typesetting, I get the following error message:

--snip-

! Misplaced \omit.
\@cline #1-#2\@nil ->\omit
\@multicnt #1\advance \@multispan
...
l.47 \cline{1-2} \cline{4-10}
\cline{12-16}
?

--snip-

Now WHY is that?? I can't understand that pesky error message and I *tried*
RTFM (that is, Lamport's LaTeX and The LaTeX Companion)..

Thanks for any help!

// Jonas <j...@abc.se> [2:201/262.37]

David Carlisle

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Mar 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/3/97

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m9...@abc.se (Jonas Bofjall) writes:

I think you `snipped' to much, since when I tried to guess how to fill
in the blanks, it worked for me:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{*{16}{|c}|}
\hline
9 & 10 & 11 & 12 & 13 & 14 & 15 & 16 & 17 & 18 & 19 & 20 & 21 & 22 &
23 & 24\\
\cline{1-2} \cline{4-10} \cline{12-16}

\end{tabular}

\end{document}

you have not by any chance got \obeyspaces in operation?

David

Jonas Bofjall

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Mar 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/4/97

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David Carlisle (carl...@karlo.zdv.uni-mainz.de) wrote:

> I think you `snipped' to much, since when I tried to guess
> how to fill in the blanks, it worked for me:

Sorry, that snippet worked for me as well. I just copied the line with
the error and everything before it, not after. Here is the whole
tabular (which *doesn't* work!):

--snip-

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{*{16}{|c}|}
\hline
9 & 10 & 11 & 12 & 13 & 14 & 15 & 16 & 17 & 18 & 19 & 20 & 21 & 22 &
23 & 24\\
\cline{1-2} \cline{4-10} \cline{12-16}

\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{ljudteori} & &
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{lab} &
\multicolumn{5}{|c|}{byggeri} & &
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{m.asp.} &
\multicolumn{3}{|c|}{pres. opp.} \\
\cline{1-2} \cline{4-10} \cline{12-16} \\
\cline{2-5} \cline{8-14}
& \multicolumn{4}{|c|}{matteori} & & &
\multicolumn{5}{|c|}{matningar} &
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{redigering} \\
\cline{2-5} \cline{8-14} \\
\cline{6-12}
& & & & & \multicolumn{7}{|c|}{matningsproblematik}\\
\cline{6-12} \\
\cline{3-14}
& & \multicolumn{12}{|c|}{rapportskrivning, studiebesok, intervjuer}\\
\cline{3-14}
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

--snip-

> you have not by any chance got \obeyspaces in operation?

I don't think so, but I don't what it is!

Camille-Aimé Possamaï

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Mar 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/4/97

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Jonas Bofjall wrote:

> the error and everything before it, not after. Here is the whole
> tabular (which *doesn't* work!):
>

Quite strange. I have copied/pasted your code and it works fine.

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Jonas Bofjall

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Mar 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/4/97

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Camille-Aimé Possama (cam...@sugiton.cnrs-mrs.fr) wrote:

> > the error and everything before it, not after. Here is the whole
> > tabular (which *doesn't* work!):
>
> Quite strange. I have copied/pasted your code and it works fine.

Yes, indeed. Very strange. Three persons have said now that it works fine
but i cannot get it to work under teTeX for SunOS, neither in Blue Sky
Research's TEXTURES for MacIntosh.

Always gives this error message:

This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1)
(burn-in-hell.tex
LaTeX2e <1996/12/01>
Babel <v3.6h> and hyphenation patterns for danish, catalan, croatian, dutch,
english, esperant, francais, german, icelandic, italian, norsk, polish,
portuges, russian, spanish, swedish, ukenglish, loaded.
(/usr/local/share/TeX/tetex/texmf/local/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1996/10/31 v1.3u Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/share/TeX/tetex/texmf/local/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(burn-in-hell.aux)

! Misplaced \omit.
\@cline #1-#2\@nil ->\omit

\@multicnt #1\advance \@multispan \m@ne \ifnum
\@...
l.14 \cline{1-2}^^a0\cline{4-10}
^^a0\cline{12-16} \\
?

J%org Knappen

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Mar 5, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/5/97

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>l.14 \cline{1-2}^^a0\cline{4-10}
> ^^a0\cline{12-16} \\

You have an character encoding problem here, your & sign got
mangled to some control character (hex A0, decimal 128).
Replace the strange character with a true & sign, and your
problem should go away.

--J"org Knappen.

Camille-Aimé Possamaï

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Mar 5, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/5/97

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Jonas Bofjall wrote:

>
> Camille-Aimé Possamaï (cam...@sugiton.cnrs-mrs.fr) wrote:
>
> > > the error and everything before it, not after. Here is the whole
> > > tabular (which *doesn't* work!):
> >
> > Quite strange. I have copied/pasted your code and it works fine.
>

> Always gives this error message:
>
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1)
> (burn-in-hell.tex
> LaTeX2e <1996/12/01>
> Babel <v3.6h> and hyphenation patterns for danish, catalan, croatian, dutch,

I don't use babel.

Could it be the reason?

Peter Fleischmann

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Mar 19, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/19/97

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J%org Knappen (kna...@iphcip1.physik.uni-mainz.de) wrote:
: >l.14 \cline{1-2}^^a0\cline{4-10}
: > ^^a0\cline{12-16} \\

: You have an character encoding problem here, your & sign got
: mangled to some control character (hex A0, decimal 128).

should be 160 ^^^
: Replace the strange character with a true & sign, and your