Funny, I just solved the problem by accident and confirmed it by looking
on the Internet:
1) the multicolumn option has another meaning, in addition to the
meaning implied by its name: the allows *custom* alignment of a cell
2) multicolumn + dcolumn can be combined to solve problem 3) in my
original email.
I still welcome any commnents & hints & tips about using tables in LyX!
Thank you,
David
1) is it possible to have a table with individual cells within a column
aligned differently?
2) while 1) may sound strange, I'd like to have, for example, a column
with numbers centered while the header of the column is aligned, say,
flushed left.
3) another practical, related, problem is the decimal-aligned columns
created using the dcolumn package. When I use the d{} alignment for a
column (bless Extended Features manual :), the numbers withing the
column are indeed aligned on the "." but the header text of the column
is in italics font (easily fixable, yet awkward, with \textrm{}) and it
is aligned so that the last letter is right aligned with the decimal
point of the rest of the column. I would like to have the numbers
aligned on the decimal point, while the header text being, say, centered.
