**Table 1:** Cool C star populations in nearby galaxy.
$\begin{table}\begin{displaymath} \begin{array}{lrlrccll} \hline\hline \par\n... ... to the SW1 field (see Battinelli et~al. \cite{Battinelli03}). \par\end{table}$

	1 Introduction
	2 The sample of extragalactic C stars
	3 Characteristics of the C star populations
	4 Discussion
	References