I am learning the TaBle package and I get the following from a verbatim example from the manual. \handleTABLEerror ...LE {columnspan too large}\SR \or \fillTABLEcolumns \ttt... l.54 " " \use2 control " " \\ ? ! Emergency stop. The \use#1 function always returns an error code. With following input (exercise 5, p.61) \BeginTable \BeginFormat | r | c | c | r | \EndFormat " " \use2 control " " \\ " " alive " dead " " \\+02 " & \use2 \= & " \\0 " low risk | 5 | ~3 | 8 " \\ " & \use3 \= & \\0 " high risk | 4 | 26 | 30 " \\ " & \use3 \= & \\0 " " 9 | 29 | 39 " \\ \EndTable Is there a way around this snafu? Christopher --------------------------------o00o-------------------------------- "Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak" - Steve Wright