> >>When you fix the column width, each cell is set as a \parbox, so there is
> >> no need to use minipage. (see attachment) However, the resulting .ps is
> >> slightly different (extra vspace at the end of the second cell)...
>
> I don't see any \parbox in the latex export of the example, but
> \begin{tabular}{|m{5cm}|m{5cm}|c|c|c|}
> So this is *not* a way to create a \parbox without ERT.
Sorry, I did not mean this is a way to create parbox, it is created by the
tabular enviroment. Namely, m{wd} is just vertically centered p{wd} which:
" p{wd} - Produces a column which can be multiple lines, with each item
typeset in a parbox of width wd."
from: http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~mimi/tex/latex/ltx-68.html
My point was that if you specify the width of a column in a table, you can
insert the same stuff as in parbox.
>
> In fact I began by patching a minipage by itself,
> and the widthcontrol problem drove me to add a table columnwidth.
>
> To conclude, it's not necessary to insert a minipage, unless you plan
> to format things in a way only allowed by minipage environment.
I agree, that you can do much more in the minipage...
V.
