Re: texlive 2025 does not process tables correctly when p{3.5cm} is used

David Carlisle <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.live
Message-ID <CAEW6iOj9+5MG1WdL+CH419K3TfMMhK2dP_S42r2dPRSOLzH90g@mail.gmail.com>
this is a revtex issue (the maintainers know about it) not a texlive
packaging issue
until revtex updated you can force the older version of `array`  the file
works with pdflatex
from texlive 2025 if you add an array rollback by making the first two lines

\documentclass[10pt,twocolumn,amsmath,amssymb,longbibliography,nofootinbib,showkeys,eprint]{revtex4-2}
%\documentclass[12pt,amsmath,amssymb,longbibliography,nofootinbib,showkeys,eprint]{revtex4-2}

\usepackage{array}[=2016-10-06]

David


On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 at 00:04, Vladislav Malyshkin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> texlive 2025 does not process tables properly
>
> pdflatex SuperstateQuantumMechanics.tex
> .....
> ! Extra \or.
> <argument> ...pach \ifcase \@chclass \@classz \or
>                                                   \@classi \or \@classii \or...
> l.1767 \begin{tabular}{p{3.5cm}|p{5.1cm}p{6.5cm}}
>
> ?
>
>
> whereas texlive 2023 is OK with this file. Replacing all p{3.5cm} by l or
> r get the file processed OK.
>
> The corresponding .tex file can be downloaded from
> https://arxiv.org/src/2502.00037
>
> Vladislav
>
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