Johannes Knaus schrieb:
So, if I understand the whole thing right, if I insert a figure, I can
set it to 100% col but if I insert a table I can only set the
width-percentages for each table column not for the whole table. Is that
right?
Yes.
So if I have a table with let's say 10 columns, I have to set
each column to 10% of the textwidth? Or is there an easier way?
Yes, but it might be that the lines between the columns also need some space. I don't know an easier
way, because other methods will only scale the table down so that the character size in the table
cells is inconsistent with the rest of the document.
For more detailed infos about tables, have a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual. There you also find
some more details concerning floats and their placement in general.
- you have a table within a figure float, but probably only an oversight
No, but this is maybe a more general thing. I use tables in my example
to properly set the stars in a vertical line above each other. I didn't
know better. In a WYSWYG-Software I would use tabstops to get this
formatting. But there is no easy way to achieve this in Lyx/Latex, or –
well – this may be my oversight.
I use figure floats because these really are – seen from their content –
figures and not tables.
Do you have an idea how I can get the same formatting without using tables?
I cannot follow you. What stars do you mean? Why do you need stars in a float and what is your
desired output (do you have a screenshot or PDF from your WYSIWYG program)?
Yes, I changed this, as I thought it would be nicer to have all float
captions above. Or is there a deeper typesetter's-sense of having them
below for figures?
Its the common placement. There might be a deeper sense, but I don't know. But when you open a book
of your choice, you will see that figure captions are always below the image, while table captions
are above the table.
regards Uwe
