# threeparttable unrecognized command

I have the following packages:

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{threeparttable}
\usepackage{miscdoc}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{longtable}


And I have three tables like this one:

\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{threeparttable}
\caption{ML Estimates pre ethanol boom period}
\begin{tabular}{lrrrrrr}
\toprule
& \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\lambda_{1}$ CP} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\lambda_{2}$ CP} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\lambda_{1}$ EP} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\lambda_{2}$ EP} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\lambda_{1}$ OP} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\lambda_{2}$ OP} \\
\midrule
Estimate & 0.5515** & 0.1946 & 0.7614** & 0.1208 & 0.7325** & 0.1528 \\
Std Error & 0.1494 & 0.0695 & 0.1593 & 0.0573 & 0.1196 & 0.0486 \\
T-Stat & 3.6906 & 2.7995 & 4.7782 & 2.1098 & 6.1242 & 3.1425 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}%
\begin{tablenotes}
\small
\begin{enumerate}
\item Double asterisks (**) represent significance at the 5\% level.
\item  Maximized Log-Likelihood =     1071.1
\item $\delta_{1}=0.9409 (0.1014)$ and  $\delta_{2}=0.0125 (0.0132)$
\item $df=8.86$

\end{enumerate}
\end{tablenotes}


The \begin{tablenotes} and \end{tablenotes} it says unrecognized command and it compiles but is marked as an error and doesn't let me change between pages. Can someone help me please

• Please make a complete document that shows the error, not two disconnected fragments. Mar 15, 2015 at 11:36
• Please edit the question above so there is just one code fragment not two and the example starts with \documentclass and ends with \end{document} so that if we copy the example and run it locally we get the error message in the question. That makes it much easier to say why you are getting an error message. "says unrecognized command " is not the exact error message and we can not reproduce the error from the code posted so it is impossible to guess your problem without more information. Mar 15, 2015 at 12:17

Don't use enumerate inside tablenotes.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{threeparttable}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{threeparttable}
\caption{ML Estimates pre ethanol boom period}
\begin{tabular}{lrrrrrr}
\toprule
& \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\lambda_{1}$ CP} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\lambda_{2}$ CP} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\lambda_{1}$ EP} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\lambda_{2}$ EP} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\lambda_{1}$ OP} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$\lambda_{2}$ OP} \\
\midrule
Estimate & 0.5515** & 0.1946 & 0.7614** & 0.1208 & 0.7325** & 0.1528 \\
Std Error & 0.1494 & 0.0695 & 0.1593 & 0.0573 & 0.1196 & 0.0486 \\
T-Stat & 3.6906 & 2.7995 & 4.7782 & 2.1098 & 6.1242 & 3.1425 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}%
\begin{tablenotes}[flushleft]
\item[1] Double asterisks (**) represent significance at the 5\% level.
\item[2]  Maximized Log-Likelihood =     1071.1
\item[3] $\delta_{1}=0.9409 (0.1014)$ and  $\delta_{2}=0.0125 (0.0132)$
\item[4] $df=8.86$
\end{tablenotes}
\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}
\end{document}


As @HarishKumar has already pointed out, don't embed the \items of the tablenotes environment in an enumerate section. (In case you're curious: they're already embedded in an itemize environment.) In addition, since the table notes don't appear to be linked directly to any specific part of the tabular material, I'd load the threeparttable package with the option flushleft. Finally, I'd line up the numbers on their decimal markers. This can be done by loading the dcolumn package and its D column type.

\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{amsmath}  % commented out all packages not needed for the MWE
%\usepackage{amssymb}
%\usepackage{textcomp}
%\usepackage{graphicx}
%\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[flushleft]{threeparttable}
%\usepackage{miscdoc}
%\usepackage{pdflscape}
%\usepackage{makeidx}
%\usepackage{multirow}
%\usepackage{multicol}
%\usepackage{longtable}

\usepackage{dcolumn}
\newcolumntype{d}[1]{D..{#1}}

\newcommand\mc[1]{\multicolumn{1}{l@{}}{#1}} % handy shortcut macro
\begin{document}

\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{threeparttable}
\caption{ML Estimates pre ethanol boom period}
\begin{tabular}{@{} l *{3}{d{1.6} d{1.4}} @{}}
\toprule
& \mc{$\lambda_{1}$ CP} & \mc{$\lambda_{2}$ CP} & \mc{$\lambda_{1}$ EP}
& \mc{$\lambda_{2}$ EP} & \mc{$\lambda_{1}$ OP} & \mc{$\lambda_{2}$ OP} \\
\midrule
Estimate  & 0.5515^{**} & 0.1946 & 0.7614^{**} & 0.1208 & 0.7325^{**} & 0.1528 \\
Std Error & 0.1494 & 0.0695 & 0.1593 & 0.0573 & 0.1196 & 0.0486 \\
T-Stat    & 3.6906 & 2.7995 & 4.7782 & 2.1098 & 6.1242 & 3.1425 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}

\begin{tablenotes}
\small
\item Double asterisks ($^{**}$) represent significance at the 5\% level.
\item  Maximized Log-Likelihood${} = 1071.1$
\item $\delta_{1}=0.9409\ (0.1014)$ and  $\delta_{2}=0.0125\ (0.0132)$
\item $df=8.86$
\end{tablenotes}

\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}
\end{document}