\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}
