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+\title{Letter to the Editor}
+\author{}
+\def\latexword#1{\texttt{#1}}
+
+\begin{Article}
+In her article on `Table design' in \BV~4.4, Siep Kroonenberg says that
+`\verb+\raggedright+ simply doesn't work in a tabular environment' and suggests
+some difficult ways to get round this. I disagree: \verb+\raggedright+ works
+perfectly well in a tabular environment so long as the current entry ends with
+\verb+&+. If your ragged right entry is not in the final column then you can
+put \verb+&+ after it even if you intend to have no more entries in that row.
+If you want any raggedright entries in the final column, the easiest way round
+the problem is to add a dummy column at the end of the \latexword{tabular}
+specification: for example, instead of saying
+\verb+\begin{tabular}{... p{2in}}+
+you could put
+\verb+\begin{tabular}{... p{2in}c}+
+or even
+\verb+\begin{tabular}{... p{2in}@{}c@{}}+
+if you are fussy about unwanted extra space.
+When you are entering information in the tabular environment, you can forget
+about the extra dummy column except when the old final column has a ragged
+right entry, in which case that entry must finish with \verb+&\\+ instead of
+just \verb+\\+.
+
+\leftline{\hfill \emph{R.~A.~Bailey}}
+\end{Article}