Hallo Michael!
> I find it quite hard, to fill in the text properly being in Lyx mode.
> There are no line breaks within the columns, so a table exceeds easily
> the borders of my lyx-window. With float tables it is even more
> disappointing to work. They will be deformed, if their width excels the
> windows-frame. I understand of cource, that there's is not so much
> trouble after the latex-compile or in the dvi/ps file. But when you have
> to work with tables you would like to see their contents displayed in a
> convenient manner.
You can fix this problem by using Ctrl-Enter (explained in the User-Guide!)
This gives you a virtual higher cell and you can define if you want this
only on screen or also on the output (by using the table-layout-menu).
> Unfortunately, LateX wont choose the width of the columns on its own, to
> make it fit to a page. Is this true ? Do I have to state every time the
> width by the {p=..} switches ??
This is true, but also natural. If you decide that you want the table that
wide then LaTeX does not make it smaller. (This is also true for any program
working with tabulars only that they split it up into more pages which I
don't like that much, or you have to reduce them which makes them so small
that you cannot read them :)
Greets J�rgen
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