On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Wayne Menzie wrote:
| I suppose that's possible but it seems like getting the data into the
| table might be problematic and I was hoping there was a way to get the
| indentation you see in my sample data without using protected spaces.
| Any ideas on how to do this better?
It is not so complicated... I have made up to 60 tables (numerical data,
description and a simple translation). All can be done with LyX. I need an
ERT if I want to make a special result. By LyX default is OK.
| Also, the users guide mentions that LyX isn't capable of fully
| exploiting LaTeX tables. Are the limitations of LyX in this area
| significant? In otherwords, am I looking at a lot of ERT?
Yes, you need ERT but not so important. For your table, just make a CSV
file, which the column should be separated by TAB (I have never used
COMMA). Then install the csv2lyx program (you can download from LyX
homepage, I forget the ftp address) to convert your csv file into the lyx
file. Then edit the converted file with your lyx.
Last two days I have made about 40s page longtable with (the original data
was from excel: my friend sent me a large excel file, which is needed for
type setting). It was very fast compared with other program. I have done
the following ways:
- convert the XLS to CSV with OpenOffice
- remove all quot (") with bluefish or other text-editor
- running cvs2lyx
- edit with lyx (setting length of column, etc) --> finish.
Wayan
