LaTeX table in minipage: Not in outer par mode

minipagetables

I try to use a table in a minipage like this:

\begin{center}
    \begin{minipage}[t]{.48\textwidth}
        \subsection{My Title}

        Some text

        \begin{table}[h!]
            \begin{tabular}{ l c l }
                \hline
                Quality            & Abbr. & Frequency \\
                \hline
                Uncirqulated       & UNC   &           \\
                \hline
            \end{tabular}
        \end{table}

    \end{minipage}\quad
    \begin{minipage}[t]{.48\textwidth}
        ...

    \end{minipage}
\end{center}

And I get this error on the line \begin{table}[h!]:

Not in outer par mode.
LaTeX

Undefined control sequence.
\latex@xfloat ...vf \fi \global \setbox \@currbox 
LaTeX

Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
LaTeX

What did I wrong or what I miss?

Best Answer

To have a table (a floating environment, to add a caption?) inside a minipage (non floating environment) can be done using the package float.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{float}% added <<<<<<<<<<

\begin{document}
        
\begin{center}
        \begin{minipage}[t]{.48\textwidth}
            \subsection{My Title}       
            Some text
            
            \begin{table}[H] % changed <<<<<
                \begin{tabular}{ l c l }
                    \hline
                    Quality            & Abbr. & Frequency \\
                    \hline
                    Uncirqulated       & UNC   &           \\
                    \hline
                \end{tabular}
            \caption{First table}
            \end{table}     
        \end{minipage} \hfill
        \begin{minipage}[t]{.48\textwidth}
            \subsection{My Title}       
            Some text
            
            \begin{table}[H]
                \begin{tabular}{ l c l }
                    \hline
                    Quality            & Abbr. & Frequency \\
                    \hline
                    Uncirqulated       & UNC   &           \\
                    \hline
                \end{tabular}
                \caption{Second table}
            \end{table}     
        \end{minipage}
\end{center}

    
\end{document}

Alternative

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{float}% added <<<<<<<<<<    
\begin{document}
    
    
\section{My Title}      
        
\begin{center}
        \begin{minipage}[t]{.48\textwidth}
            Some text   
            
            \begin{table}[H] % changed <<<<<
                \begin{tabular}{ l c l }
                    \hline
                    Quality            & Abbr. & Frequency \\
                    \hline
                    Uncirqulated       & UNC   &           \\
                    \hline
                \end{tabular}
            \caption{First table}
            \end{table} 
        \smallskip
        Some more text      
        \end{minipage}
\end{center}    
    
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Error: Not in outer par mode with estwide table

Not in outer par mode means you have a table environment nested inside something that doesn't allow tables. Here it is another table environment.

Your input file starts

\begin{table}[htbp]\centering
\caption{Regression table\label{tab1}}

so it is already a complete table float with a caption, not just the table itself.

But you are trying to input it as

\begin{table}
\centering
  \begin{threeparttable}
    \caption{Table1}
    \estwide{/Users/Shared/Example/table1.tex}{2}{c}
     \end{threeparttable}
\end{table}

so putting a table inside a threeparttable inside a table. That can not work, just use

\input{table1.tex}

or (if that's possible) get your application to just write the inner tabular to the table1.tex file not wrap it in table and \caption

[Tex/LaTex] tabular + table results in “Not in outer par mode”

i suspect that you like to obtain the following result:

correct code for above table is:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{multirow}

\begin{document}
   \begin{table}
   \centering
\begin{tabular}{ c c }
    \begin{tabular}{ c c | c | c | }
    &       & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{P2}   \\
    &       & $a_1$ & $a_2$             \\
    \hline
\multirow{2}{*}{P1}
    & $a_1$ & 0,0   & 0,0               \\
    & $a_2$ & 0,0   & 0,0               \\
    \hline
    \end{tabular}
&
Other text
\end{tabular}
    \caption{Title}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

addendum: from your comments follows, that you like to have two parallel tables:

for this i suggest to use the tabularx table environment for outer table:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{multirow, tabularx}
\newcolumntype{C}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}

\begin{document}
   \begin{table}
   \centering
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{ C C }
    \begin{tabular}{ c c | c | c | }
    &       & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{P2}   \\
    &       & $a_1$ & $a_2$             \\
    \hline
\multirow{2}{*}{P1}
    & $a_1$ & 0,0   & 0,0               \\
    & $a_2$ & 0,0   & 0,0               \\
    \hline
    \end{tabular}
    \caption{Title of the first table}
    \label{tab:1}
&
    \begin{tabular}{ c c | c | c | }
    &       & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{P2}   \\
    &       & $a_1$ & $a_2$             \\
    \hline
\multirow{2}{*}{P1}
    & $a_1$ & 0,0   & 0,0               \\
    & $a_2$ & 0,0   & 0,0               \\
    \hline
    \end{tabular}
    \caption{Title of the second table}
    \label{tab:2}
\end{tabularx}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

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