[Tex/LaTex] Why the tabular column specifier C doesn’t work

beamertables

I'm using the tabular enviroment \begin{tabular} … \end{tabular} inside of the beamer class \begin{frame} … \end{frame} tags.
In standard latex documents, i often use something like

\begin{tabular}{C{2.5cm} C{1cm} C{1.5cm} C{1.5cm} C{1.5cm} C{1.5cm} C{1.5cm} C{1.5cm} C{1.5cm} C{1.5cm}}`

to predefine column widths.
This seems not to work inside of beamer frames, i get the error:

! Package array Error:  Illegal pream-token (C): `c' used.

Replacing 'C' with 'c' leads to:

! Package array Error:  Illegal pream-token (2.5cm): `c' used.

Why does the interpreter complains about setting the width?
Is there a universal solution to handle that issue in general?

Best Answer

It seems that you forgot to define the columntype C. I guess you want something like

\newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{#1}}

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In order for rules in tabular to appear, each document class has to define a positive value for \arrayrulewidth and moderncv either doesn't assign a value or it sets it to 0pt; something similar happens to \tabcolsep; simply assign the standard values for those lengths:

\documentclass{moderncv}

\firstname{A}
\familyname{B}

\setlength\arrayrulewidth{.4pt}
\setlength\tabcolsep{6pt}

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 \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
 \hline aa & bb & cc \\
 \hline dd & ee & ff \\
 \hline
 \end{tabular}

\end{document}

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In fact, there was an attempt to set these lengths (and some others) in moderncv.cls, but the author decided they were not required; one can see

% not required
%\setlength\arraycolsep{5\p@}
%\setlength\tabcolsep{6\p@}
%\setlength\arrayrulewidth{.4\p@}
%\setlength\doublerulesep{2\p@}
%\setlength\tabbingsep{\labelsep}

in moderncv.cls.

As a personal suggestion, consider removing vertical rules from your tables and using the booktabs package.

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The answer by egreg didn't work for me, so her is an example how I do it:

    \documentclass[varwidth]{standalone}
    \usepackage {listings}
    \usepackage {xcolor}

    % Color scheme: original matlab
    \definecolor{src_none}{HTML}      {555555} % 
    \definecolor{src_comment}{HTML}   {008000} % gruen

    \lstset{language            = Matlab,
            basicstyle          = \color{src_none}\ttfamily\footnotesize,
            stringstyle         = \color{src_comment}}

    \begin{document}
      lorem \lstinline{foo = 'bar';} ipsum.\\
      \begin{tabular}{ll}
        11                        & 12\\
        \lstinline[]$bar = 'foo';$  & 22\\
      \end{tabular}

    \end{document}

notice that I've used '$$' instead of brackets '{}' it results in:

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