Rod Pinna wrote: >>>Essentially, I want to define the table cell width, and have it centre >>>aligned. I've found that in any column *except the last* I can do this by >>>setting a column width, and then centre aligning each paragraph in the >>>table. This doesn't work in the last paragraph, resulting in a latex >>>error.
look at attached file HErbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/
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For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 218 \textclass scrbook \begin_preamble \usepackage[]{natbib} \usepackage[hang,footnotesize]{caption} \end_preamble \options twoside \language english \inputencoding default \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize 12 \spacing other 1.17 \papersize a4paper \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 1 \use_amsmath 1 \paperorientation portrait \leftmargin 30mm \topmargin 20mm \rightmargin 47mm \bottommargin 10mm \secnumdepth 2 \tocdepth 2 \paragraph_separation skip \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 2 \paperpagestyle fancy \layout LaTeX \layout Chapter A Chapter \layout Standard This is an example table \begin_float tab \layout Caption \added_space_bottom 3pt Values of the displacment components and their derivatives with respect to \begin_inset Formula \( z \) \end_inset at \begin_inset Formula \( z=0 \) \end_inset \layout Standard \added_space_top 1mm \added_space_bottom 1mm \align center \begin_inset Tabular <lyxtabular version="2" rows="4" columns="3"> <features rotate="false" islongtable="false" endhead="0" endfirsthead="0" endfoot="0" endlastfoot="0"> <column alignment="left" valignment="center" leftline="false" rightline="false" width="3cm" special=""> <column alignment="left" valignment="center" leftline="false" rightline="false" width="3cm" special=""> <column alignment="left" valignment="center" leftline="false" rightline="false" width="3cm" special=""> <row topline="true" bottomline="true" newpage="false"> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="left" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \added_space_top 1mm \align center Displacement Component \end_inset </cell> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="left" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \added_space_top 1mm \align center Value of component at \begin_inset Formula \( z=0 \) \end_inset \end_inset </cell> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="left" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \added_space_top 1mm \align center Value of \begin_inset Formula \( \frac{\partial }{\partial z} \) \end_inset of \newline component at \begin_inset Formula \( z=0 \) \end_inset \end_inset </cell> </row> <row topline="false" bottomline="false" newpage="false"> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \added_space_top 1mm \begin_inset Formula \( u_{1} \) \end_inset \end_inset </cell> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \added_space_top 1mm \begin_inset Formula \( \sin (n\theta )\times \textrm{constant} \) \end_inset \end_inset </cell> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="left" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \begin_inset Formula \( \frac{\sin (n\theta )}{L}\times \textrm{constant} \) \end_inset \end_inset </cell> </row> <row topline="false" bottomline="false" newpage="false"> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \added_space_top 1mm \begin_inset Formula \( v_{1} \) \end_inset \end_inset </cell> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="left" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \added_space_top 1mm \begin_inset Formula \( 0 \) \end_inset \end_inset </cell> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="left" valignment="top" topline="false" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \begin_inset Formula \( \frac{\cos (n\theta )}{L}\times \textrm{constant} \) \end_inset \end_inset </cell> </row> <row topline="false" bottomline="true" newpage="false"> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \added_space_top 1mm \begin_inset Formula \( w_{1} \) \end_inset \end_inset </cell> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="left" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \added_space_top 1mm \begin_inset Formula \( 0 \) \end_inset \end_inset </cell> <cell multicolumn="0" alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="false" leftline="true" rightline="false" rotate="false" usebox="none" width="" special=""> \begin_inset Text \layout Standard \begin_inset Formula \( \frac{\cos (n\theta )}{L}\times \textrm{constant} \) \end_inset \end_inset </cell> </row> </lyxtabular> \end_inset \end_float \the_end
