Hi Marshall, I think that it can be done fairly easily by inserting some extra columns and then using the multi-column approach. See the second table in the attached file. Is that what you wanted.?
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From: Marshall Feldman <ma...@uri.edu>
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Cc: Scott Kostyshak <skost...@princeton.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 4:57:01 PM
Subject: Re: Spanners in tables
On 4/26/13 4:12 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Marshall Feldman <ma...@uri.edu> wrote:
>Hello, The standard format for formal tables uses spanners to indicate columns
>with
similar, related content. I am using LyX with the "formal" tables option set
to on. But I don't see how to introduce spanners into a table.. For example,
suppose a table has two lines of headings. Suppose further that
row 1 has "Revenue" as a heading and that below this the table has two
headings, "Sales" and "Interest." So we would like the line beneath
"Revenue" to span two columns with a solid line, and for there to be enough
space at the edges of the spanned columns for the reader to make out that
the spanner is indeed separate from adjacent columns. See this page for
examples. So how does one handle spanners in LyX?
>Hi Marshall, If I understand correctly, what you refer to as "spanners" LyX
>would
refer to as "multi-column". In a table, select a couple of rows and
click on "multi-column" in the table toolbar (which is at the bottom
of the screen and is activated when the cursor is in a table). Best, Scott
Thanks, Scott.
Well it's not exactly multicolumn, at least not how I understand
this term. A cell that's multicolumn spans more than one column.
This relates to spanners, but it's only part of the issue.
A spanner is a line under the heading for the multicolumn cell. The
line does not run the full width of the original columns that went
into the multicolumn cell. Since the spanner typically serves as a
heading indicating which columns fall under the heading, there has
to be some way to distinguish the columns falling under the heading
from other, adjacent columns. This is why the spanner line is
shorter than the combined widths of the original columns: whitespace
on either side of the line separates it from lines in adjacent
cells.
I'll try to draw a picture:
Greetings Century
Holiday --------------------------- -------------- <=
These dashed lines are "spanners"
Coming Going 18 19
20 21
Mardis Gras Want beads? Happy Mardi Gras
X X
Xmas Merry Xmas Merry Xmas
X X X
Thanks for your help.
Marsh
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