On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> A table withing a table cell is great, but I have some problems:
>
> 1. I can easily get the vertical lines of the interior table
> to join the upper and lower edge of the outer table cell.
> I.e. no whitespace above and below the interior table.
>
> Unfortunately I get whitespace to the right and
> left of the interior table, can that be avoided?
Put the following line in the preamble
\newcommand{\x}{\hspace{-\tabcolsep}\hspace{0pt}}
and put \x before and after the inner table (in latex mode).
> One use of this is to have an outer table that
> basically have two columns, and a single row
> or two with lots of more columns.
Just a remark: a complex tabular should really be avoided as they are hard
to follow by the reader.
> 2. Changing fonts, boldness, language, etc. of text
> in a cell in a inner table does not work. I have
> to work around by writing outside the table
> and pasting the corrected text into it.
> Known problem?
Will be fixed in 1.2.0
>
> 3. Selecting all of a table in order to change everything
> to bold doesn't work. I have to do this cell by cell
> which is tedious.
Ditto.
In fact, with 1.1.6, if you select the whole table and change the font,
it will affect the DVI/PS file even though you don't see a feedback on the
LyX screen.
