diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 37c01fd..e30b117 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: tables
 Title: Formula-Driven Table Generation
-Version: 0.9.26
+Version: 0.9.27
 Author: Duncan Murdoch
 Description: Computes and displays complex tables of summary statistics.
   Output may be in LaTeX, HTML, plain text, or an R
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index c312bc1..e1e5ff1 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-# tables 0.9.26
+# tables 0.9.27
 
 - A factor level of `""` caused an error when displayed.  It will
 now be changed to `" "` for display (issue #19).
 - The `VignetteBuilder` field in `DESCRIPTION` has been changed to
 `rmarkdown` so that Pandoc can be found even when it is not on the `PATH`.
+- Another minor update due to changes to the `formatters` package.
 
 # tables 0.9.25
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index ecb84ff..01fe1a4 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,11 +1,5 @@
-# tables 0.9.25
-
-Tried to handle the `formatters::matrix_print_form` differently,
-so we never refer to something that isn't there.
-
-# tables 0.9.24
-
-This is a minor release, fixing a few bugs and adding a function
-at the request of the `tinytables` package.  The submission was
-triggered by a change to the exports of the `formatters` package.
+# tables 0.9.27
 
+This is a small bug fix release.  It also contains a fix for the
+error reported by CRAN on June 21 to work with an update to the
+formatters package.
diff --git a/man/matrix_form.tabular.Rd b/man/matrix_form.tabular.Rd
index f2c258a..b491c2f 100644
--- a/man/matrix_form.tabular.Rd
+++ b/man/matrix_form.tabular.Rd
@@ -55,8 +55,14 @@ if (requireNamespace("formatters")) {
   }
   
   # This gives the breaks by columns, counting the
-  # row label columns:
-  bycol <- formatters::vert_pag_indices(mform, cpp = 30,  rep_cols = 2)
+  # row label columns.  
+  # The formatters::vert_pag_indices function had an incompatible
+  # change in v0.5.8
+  if ("fontspec" \%in\% names(formals(formatters::vert_pag_indices)))
+    bycol <- formatters::vert_pag_indices(mform, cpp = 30,  rep_cols = 2,
+                                        fontspec = NULL)
+  else
+    bycol <- formatters::vert_pag_indices(mform, cpp = 30,  rep_cols = 2)
   # Display the table with both kinds of breaks
   for (i in seq_along(byrow)) {
     rows <- byrow[[i]]