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Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related typesetting systems. Join them; it only takes a http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/110333/illegal-pream-token-in-tabular minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top How to use commands in table specs, and still support array package? up vote 4 down vote favorite For a package, I want to write code that creates tables, where the exact type of table is configurable http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/103946/how-to-use-commands-in-table-specs-and-still-support-array-package (tabular, longtable, tabularx, ... [Update: David rightly remarked that formats like tabularx would be harder to use in a configurable way, as they need more parameters]), and where the number of columns is determined by the program (so table specs like l|l are computed; details do not matter here). The following simple code works with LaTeX tables: \def\mytablespec{l|l} \def\mytabletype{tabular} \begin{\mytabletype}{\mytablespec} 1 & 2 \\\hline 3 & 4 \\ \end{\mytabletype} However, if the package array is loaded, the code fails with the error Package array Error: Illegal pream-token (\mytablespec): `c' used. The problem is that array does not expand table specs. One can force this as follows: \def\mytablespec{l|l} \expandafter\tabular\expandafter{\mytablespec} 1 & 2 \\\hline 3 & 4 \\ \endtabular This code works with or without the array package. However, this code no longer uses a command to define the table type. I did not manage to combine \expandafter with \begin{\mytabletype}...\end{\mytabletype}. The following, however, seems to work: \expandafter\csname\expandafter\mytabletype\expandafter\endcsname\expandafter{\mytablespec} 1 & 2 \\\hline 3 & 4 \\ \csname end\mytabletype\endcsname [Update: David pointed out that the following simpler version also works: \csname\mytabletype\expandafter\endcsname\expandafter{\mytablespec} 1 & 2 \\\hline 3 & 4 \\ \csname en

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