Rich Shepard <rshepard <at> appl-ecosys.com> writes:
> > That's correct. By setting the column width of the cell I want to span two > lines to a length that accommodates the text on each line then I have a > narrow cell with two lines of column heading text. > > > Let's say I have two columns and join the top two cells in the > > right column to make a single header cell. > > This makes the two columns into a single column for that row. That's a > horse of a different garage. Um, no, it makes two rows into a single row for that column, which is a mule of a different stable. > > > Is that what you want, or am I missing something? > > Consider this set of column headers in a table: > > Mean Standard Standard Median > Deviation Error > > That's what I can do by setting the widths of the two middle columns. > > What I want is this: > > Standard Standard > Mean Deviation Error Median > Seems straightforward, but what's the problem with using two rows for the heading, with "Standard" in columns 2 and 3 of row 1 and the other four words distributed across row 2. I did a side-by-side comparison of that with my suggestion (combining the two heading rows into one for just the middle two columns), and vertical spacing (in the PDF) looked identical to my undiscerning eye. Another version that worked for me (and looked identical to the aforementioned) was to use a single row for the heading. Using the cell settings dialog in LyX, I set the middle two heading cells to width 10ex and set the "Vertical alignment in row" to bottom (along with centering the cells horizontally, which IIRC was the default). The first and fourth heading cells required no adjustments. Paul
