On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Wayne Menzie wrote: | I'm not sure I understand your answer. Let me be more clear on the | question. Given the data I showed earlier, I would put each family | listing in its own row to prevent weird page breaks. Within that | listing, I would like the address and phone number to be slightly | indented from the surname and the children's' names to be slightly | indented from the parents' names.
it's better if each of your data has own cell to minimize editting or adding ERT. | I have played around with LyX and found that using a protected space | accomplishes this but that would appear to be a difficult thing to | automate when converting my data. that bad idea for non-equal space font (I don't know how should I say, anyway like CMF or times). | Excellent suggestion. I noticed some mentions of csv2lyx and wondered | if it would work for me. One caveat is that I'm using LyX under Windows | (thanks Claus!) so I don't know if it can run in that environment. I don't know. I have never use LyX under Windows. The converter seems in perl script. It could be run if you have perl in Windows... | That sounds very similar to what I'm going to have to do. I will be | using fixed column widths to get multiple-line cells but I'm not sure | that I can automate that at all. yes, you can... | It looks like that will have to take place after I get the data into | LyX. I've noticed a problem with the positioning of tables when using | longtable. I seems to want to be shifted to the right much farther than | I would imagine. In fact, with fixed-width columns totaling 7 inches on | USLetter - Portrait, about 1/4 of the table is off the page when I | preview the DVI. Anything I can do about that? you can only make a center/left/right postition for longtable (as a paragraph). The size is depended on your definition. Have you set your page margin. If you didn't set, the default is too big (although it is a standard). The result, your table will be shifted outside the margin/page. If you make a total 7 inches column, the total left/right margin should be less than 1.5 inches. | Also, are you familiar with supertab? I have never used, since the longtable is enough for my data. | It appears to be a simpler environment to have multipage tables but I | don't know if LyX can deal with it. Sorry for all the questions. | Thanks for your and everyone else's help. longtable can handle multipage table and easy with lyx. As I mentioned before, I have made a longtable about 40s pages. I have just define header/footer, first header, and column size. See in the doc or example directory about longtable in lyx directory. I hope you can install cvs2lyx on your system. Wayan
