On 07-Sep-99 Arcady Genkin wrote:
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> I find that creating tables is quite an awkward process in LyX. What a
> shame -- the program handles everything else so gracefully.
>
I heard other comments too, but probably that is really subjective :)
>
> I figured out I have to specify the table width in cm, but for some
You don't have to use cm you could use any length (in, pt, mm, ...)
> reason it's indented from the left about 7cm, and I can only make it
> 10cm to fit into the page... How do I get rid of the indentation?
Is your paragraph centered? Try to left-align the paragraph and you'll
see that it magically will start on the left side ;)
> Further more, I tried to specify "Rotate 90 degrees" in "Spec. Table"
> of "Table Layout", but LaTeX doesn't grok it, saying:"!LaTeX Error:
> File `rotating.sty' not found. or enter new name. (Default extension:
> sty)". Any ideas?
>
Sure you should install rotating.sty in your LaTeX distribution (really
strange it isn't there what distribution are you using?) Have a look at
you Help Files -> LaTeX Configuration and you'll find a place where to
find it (but I've just seen that you got another mail where you get a
pointer to this ;)
> It seems like I need to use "Linebreaks" option in order to have
> multiple lines in a cell. However, in some cells this option is greyed
No you don't have to set Linebreaks to get multiple lines, "Linebreaks"
just forces you linebreaks and puts them as you entered them in the
table cell (\parbox and \\), if you don't use linebreaks then depending
on the width of the cell the text is wrapped automatically (width 0 is
endless and so you'll get all in one line!)
> out. It seems it is dependant on borders around that cell or smth
> else... Also, I am unable to orient text in a cell vertically, and get
> the same error message as above.
>
It depends on the width of the cell as explained above! The other is
again rotating.sty! (You can preview this only in Postscript!)
> I read through User's guide section on tables, but didn't find any
> help there. ;( Am I trying to acomplish too much at the current stage
> of LyX's development?
>
And I thought I did explain all of it, maybe I really forgot something :)
Anyway I hope I could help you in some way #:O)
Greets Jürgen
BTW: I found this in the tabular Help Documentatin (User Guide):
One last remark: Longtable and Rotate 90° use special LaTeX packages, so you
should look into LaTeX configuration in the Help menu to see if your system
supports these features!
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