On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Friedemann Baitinger wrote:
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> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Allan Rae wrote:
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> > On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Thomas Templin wrote:
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> > > At Wednesday February 7. 2001 20:44 you wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > I guess my question is, do I really have to go into every cell of
> > > > the table, select the text and then set the font size to
> > > > smaller? That seems rather difficult.
> > > >
> > > > Matt Norton
> > > Add following LaTeX Commands for tablewide fontsize:
> > >
> > > Write just before thet able (outside) in tex(red) (LaTeX)
> > > \scriptsize or any other fontsize.
> > > Just behind the table (outside) \normalsize
> >
> > A neater way to do this that will also trigger a "compile" time error if
> > you forget the second part is to write
> > {\scriptsize
> >
> > before, and
> > }
> >
> > after. If you leave out the } LaTeX will complain when you try to run it
> > and LyX should put an error box at the {\scriptsize line since that won't
> > have been closed.
>
> And still I'd consider this process a step backward compared to
> LyX-1.1.5 where it was possible to use the GUI to adjust the font size
> and other characteristics. I'm afraid the same ugly method has to be
> used in order to change other attributes like makeing some columns Bold.
Every release of LyX I've ever used I had to use the trick I suggested to
do a font change of an entire table. I've never bothered changing the
text in the table the table still thinks it's \normalsize.
[...]
> Ideally I would like to have the old behaviour back and then when
The rest of the problems are due to not-yet-implemented capabilities of
the InsetText (the red box in a table cell) and the tabular code. The old
behaviour will return just as soon as those capabilities are implemented.
> talking about an improvement it would make sense to enhance the
> mouse-selection logic such that in tables not only selection from right
> to left is possible but also the selection of columns.
There are a number of similar improvements planned but someone has to
write them.
Allan. (ARRae)
