On 11 August 2012 07:42, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, curtis osterhoudt wrote: > >> Ah. A slightly easier way of getting there is to place the mouse cursor >> within the table, and then go to the "Edit" menu at the top of the LyX >> window, choose "Table Settings", and then the dialog which appears >> includes the "Longtable" tab. > > > Curtis, > > I need to play with this (or your previous suggestion). When I follow the > above, and check the box for 'caption' it makes the column header row a > caption. Since all tables I've used in the past were in floats I need to > learn how to work with a table outside a float. > > Looks like I need to play until I can get the caption correct, then figure > out by trial-and-error where to break the page. > > Thanks for the pointers, > > Rich >
Rich, long tables are documented thoroughly. Please have a read of the internal documentation (embeddedObjects in particular) [1], else search Google. However, you can skip the LyX wiki page on long tables as it is outdated. Long tables are just static tables with manually-added float features, such as a caption. You create your table, and then when you're done, create a new row on the top or bottom and then make that row a caption (Caption: On; right-click in any column). [1] www.almack.ch/upload/Doc/LyX/en/EmbeddedObjects.pdf -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
