John Boik wrote:
>
> Fifth, is there any easy way to automatically have a table span exactly the
> width of the paper? I understand the tabularx package does not work with
> Lyx (or if it does I do not know how to use it). I would like to have the
> table fit the page, and then have certain columns larger or smaller than
> others.
no, not yet possible. find out your textwidth and give the different
columns a width so that they all fit the whole width or use tabularx
in ert.
> Sixth, I have a new command that I put in the preamble that inserts the
> microgram symbol (the Greek micro and the roman g) if I type in \mg. It is:
>
> \newcommand{\mg}{$\mu$g }
>
> It allows me to easily type in, for example, 70 ug. But, when the
> paragraphs are justified, Lyx does not know to keep the 70 next to the ug
> symbol and the space looks funny. Is there a way to keep the two next to
> each other?
put a protected space (ctrl-space) between them, not a standard space.
> Seventh, and this one might be the hardest, when I use the \begin{cases} and
> \end{cases} command in the math mode, I cannot figure how to make the two
> cases split lines vertically or how to make the left part (the equation)
> horizontally space itself away from the right part (the cases). Here is an
> example of my command:
>
> Y=\begin {cases}10+k&\text {if}\, k=1 \text{and}\cr 20+k&\text {if}k=2.\end
> {cases}
in special cases write the whole formula in ert.
> Eighth and last, I would like to use BibTex for my references, and I
> understand how to import the citation into Lyx, but I don't know how to
> start BibTex in the first place to enter a list of references. If I go to
> the command line and type in "BibTex", it tells me it needs an argument.
> The help command doesn't tell me much either that I can understand. If I
> try to make a new bib file by typing in "BibTex foo", it tells me that it
> cannot open file name 'foo.aux'. How does one start BibTex to make a new
> file?
http://www.lyx.org/help/bibtex/bibtex-start.html
Herbert
