[Tex/LaTex] What does \processtable{}, and where can I learn about what it does

Question

LaTeX Companion does not mention \processtable{} command. It seems to obviate the need for \caption{}… where do I go to learn more?

Answer 1

Thanks to R. Schumacher for the initial link hint. This is a locally defined command in the class bioinfo.cls which is available from here

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/bioinformatics/for_authors/submission_online.html

Unless you are submitting a paper to that journal, you do not want to use that class.

Slightly bizarrely the class actually defines a processtable environment with a null end code, but then the sample document provided with the class uses the command form.

bioinfo.cls:

\newenvironment{processtable}[3]{\setbox\temptbox=\hbox{{\tablesize #2}}%
\tempdime\wd\temptbox\@processtable{#1}{#2}{#3}{\tempdime}}
{\relax}