can't help you, but I can say that the revtex on debian is still 3, not
the latest RevTeX 4 (latex2e finally). Yeah, it's still pseudo-beta, but
it works great for me, and they accept manuscripts written with it as
compuscripts now. Why hasn't that hit unstable/testing yet, anyway?
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I need to create a table using revtex, but I can't. Something weird in going
> on with my installed revtex. I will be very grateful if someone could help me!
> The file compiles without problems in another machine, so this is a valid tex
> file.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help!
>
> Here is the tex file:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> \documentstyle[aps,preprint,tighten,epsfig]{revtex}
> \begin{document}
>
> \begin{center}
> \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
> \hline \\
> &$g_{DD\rho}^{(M)}(Q^2=0)$ & $g_{DD\rho}^{(M)}(Q^2=-m_M^2)$ & $\Lambda_M\,
> (GeV)$\\
> \hline\hline
> $D$ off-shell & 3.1 & 4.4& 3.5 \\
> $\rho$ off-shell & 2.5 & 4.6& 1.0 \\
> \hline
> \end{tabular}
> \end{center}
>
> \end{document}
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> and here is the output I get:
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/work/papers/qcdsr$ latex table.tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
> (table.tex
> LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1
> Babel <v3.6x> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman,
> n
> ohyphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex209.def
>
> Entering LaTeX 2.09 COMPATIBILITY MODE
> *************************************************************
> !!WARNING!! !!WARNING!! !!WARNING!! !!WARNING!!
>
> This mode attempts to provide an emulation of the LaTeX 2.09
> author environment so that OLD documents can be successfully
> processed. It should NOT be used for NEW documents!
>
> New documents should use Standard LaTeX conventions and start
> with the \documentclass command.
>
> Compatibility mode is UNLIKELY TO WORK with LaTeX 2.09 style
> files that change any internal macros, especially not with
> those that change the FONT SELECTION or OUTPUT ROUTINES.
>
> Therefore such style files MUST BE UPDATED to use
> Current Standard LaTeX: LaTeX2e.
> If you suspect that you may be using such a style file, which
> is probably very, very old by now, then you should attempt to
> get it updated by sending a copy of this error message to the
> author of that file.
> *************************************************************
>
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/tracefnt.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latexsym.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/latex209.cfg)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/rawfonts.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/tools/somedefs.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ulasy.fd)))
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/revtex/revtex.sty
> Filename: revtex.sty, v3.1 <1 July 96>
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/revtex/aps.sty
> Filename: aps.sty, v3.1 <September 1996>
> REVTeX message: NFSS detected! Assuming NFSS.
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/revtex/aps12.sty
> Filename: aps12.sty, v3.1 <September 1996>
> ) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/revtex/prabib.sty
> Filename: prabib.sty, v3.1 <7/1/96>
> ))) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/epsfig.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/dvips.def)))) (table.aux)
> ! Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr.
> <recently read> \endtemplate
>
> l.7 &
> $g_{DD\rho}^{(M)}(Q^2=0)$ & $g_{DD\rho}^{(M)}(Q^2=-m_M^2)$ & $\Lambda_M\,
> ?
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
--
Jeff Maxson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
