--- a/CookBook/document/root.tex	Mon Feb 09 04:18:14 2009 +0000
+++ b/CookBook/document/root.tex	Wed Feb 11 17:40:24 2009 +0000
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@
 \newcommand{\isasymverbclose}{\isacharverbatimclose}
 
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% since * cannot be used in text {*...*} 
+\newenvironment{tabularstar}[2]
+{\begin{tabular*}{#1}{#2}}{\end{tabular*}}
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \begin{document}
 
 \title{\mbox{}\\[-10ex]