Hi Steve, Paul and Uwe Thanks for your suggestions. Unfortunately I haven't had any success so far with them.
Steve, pressing ENTER after setting the column width as 6cm still didn't work. Whatever I do in this dialogue box in relation to the fixing the width, ie clicking on the check box and then entering the width as integer cm, just does not 'stick'. I wonder should there be an 'Apply' button on this dialogue (as with many others) instead of just a 'Close' button? Paul, as you may have gathered I did use an integer width to no avail. I tried p in the Latex argument field to see whether it made any difference. Again no, and I wonder how this field is intended to be used. I've asked PCLinuxOS to upgrade their repository version of LyX to 1.4.4. Uwe, I read the EmbeddedObjects documentation after copying the .lyx file into Kile, saving it as a .lyx file and then processing it to produce the .pdf locally. (The reason for this roundabout procedure was that the .pdf version insisted that I have Adobe Acrobat 7.0, which I haven't, so it wouldn't play and when I opened the .lyx file, it wouldn't let me save it to file. At least there are workarounds.) On reading the manual, I think I am still doing the obvious procedure recommendation/implication in the manual. Perhaps I need to put something in the preamble to make the dialogue box work properly? Thanks again, and perhaps I'll try entering tables with an ert. Cheers G > > I'm pretty sure I know. After changing the number in a column width field > of the dialog box, you MUST PRESS ENTER. Clicking a button is not enough, > you must press enter. > > It's one of the most bizarre user interfaces in the world, but considering > that so much of LyX is engineered *just right*, I guess we can live with > this bizarity. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware > http://www.troubleshooters.com/
