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"Undefined control sequence" - \rowcolors with xcolor

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jel

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Nov 28, 2006, 8:16:05 AM11/28/06

I've checked the archives and Googled for this to no avail.

I get an "undefined control sequence" error when using the \rowcolors
command from xcolor. The example below is from the xcolor
documentation. I'm using MiKTeX 2.5 and version 2.09 of xcolor.

What's my problem?

Thanks

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xcolor}

\begin{document}
\rowcolors[\hline]{3}{green!25}{yellow!50}
\arrayrulecolor{red!75!gray}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
test & row \number\rownum\\
test & row \number\rownum\\
test & row \number\rownum\\
test & row \number\rownum\\
\arrayrulecolor{black}
test & row \number\rownum\\
test & row \number\rownum\\
\rowcolor{blue!25}
test & row \number\rownum\\
test & row \number\rownum\\
\hiderowcolors
test & row \number\rownum\\
test & row \number\rownum\\
\showrowcolors
test & row \number\rownum\\
test & row \number\rownum\\
\multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor{red!12}}l}{test} & row \number\rownum\\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Herbert Voss

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Nov 28, 2006, 8:52:32 AM11/28/06

jel schrieb:

> I've checked the archives and Googled for this to no avail.
>
> I get an "undefined control sequence" error when using the \rowcolors
> command from xcolor. The example below is from the xcolor
> documentation. I'm using MiKTeX 2.5 and version 2.09 of xcolor.
>
> What's my problem?
>
> Thanks
>
> \documentclass{article}
>
> \usepackage{xcolor}

> \usepackage[table]{xcolor}

Herbert

jel

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Nov 28, 2006, 9:40:18 AM11/28/06

Thanks. My original "problem" cropped up when I was trying to compile
beamerexample1.tex, which produced the same "undefined control
sequence" error. Does this mean something changed in xcolor along the
way, or did beamer never have it right?

Uwe Kern

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Dec 1, 2006, 4:11:23 PM12/1/06

jel schrieb:

Version 2.02 (2005/03/24) of xcolor introduced the `table' option to be
required for using \rowcolors, which is based on (and useless without)
the colortbl package.
Maybe beamer relies on the behavior of older xcolor versions.

Uwe