"Praedor Tempus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is terribly disheartening. I haven't found a single app that can be
> used to make a table for publication - the problem is that it appears that
> linux apps don't really understand what "monospaced font" means.
What I don't understand is why you cannot, as you stated in a separate
message, use the LyX tabular environment. But I'll let that go for now.
Two things you can try:
1) You mentioned an app that did what you wanted, but couldn't get EPS
out of it. OK, print that to PostScript, then run ps2epsi (part of
GhostScript's utilities package) on it. That will give you an EPS
file, IIRC properly cropped, to import.
2) Use groff. In those ancient times before TeX, before X11, groff's
ancestors (troff and nroff) founded a mighty suite of documentation
that could be viewed on holy relics such as the VT100[1], or written
to the primitive output devices (line printers and typesetters) of
the day. Some of the documentation still exists in preserves such as
/usr/local/man.
So here's some sample groff code that makes you a table. (Replace space
runs with tabs to mark columns. I probably got the breaks wrong, but
you'll know what to do.) Paste it into a text file.
.ft CW
.TS
center;
l l l c .
H17* R C -> T +
H17 R & U5 duplication +
H168 partial U5 duplication +
H40 tRNA & cellular sequence insertion +
H72 U3 GAG -> ACC +
H115 R C -> T +
.TE
Stuff isn't lining up in the source document, but don't worry about
that. Just run the commands:
groff -t table.n >table.ps
ps2epsi table.ps
gv table.epsi
If your computer is less than two years old, it will probably take
less time to run groff than it did to type the command. Generating
the EPS file takes a few seconds longer. Import it into LyX and
you're good to go.
Contact me off list if you want more info (we're getting WAAAAY
off topic).
Larry
[1] You cannot truly appreciate big consoles & X11 until you've spent
some time using a 24-line text terminal.
