Tanks, John. The second table is almost what I want. The only change is
to remove the bottom border from the cell to the left of the "Result"
spanner.
This approach works, but I was hoping there's an easier way in LyX. The
whole idea of keeping presentation separate from content would imply
that tables can be formatted according to different styles at the push
of a button.
Nonetheless, this works.
Marsh
On 4/27/13 9:55 AM, John Kane wrote:
Hi Marshall,
I think that it can be done fairly easily by inserting some extra
columns and then using the multi-column approach. See the second table
in the attached file. Is that what you wanted.?
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*From:* Marshall Feldman <[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected]
*Cc:* Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Friday, April 26, 2013 4:57:01 PM
*Subject:* Re: Spanners in tables
On 4/26/13 4:12 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Marshall Feldman<[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
The standard format for formal tables uses spanners to indicate columns with
similar, related content. I am using LyX with the "formal" tables option set
to on. But I don't see how to introduce spanners into a table..
For example, suppose a table has two lines of headings. Suppose further that
row 1 has "Revenue" as a heading and that below this the table has two
headings, "Sales" and "Interest." So we would like the line beneath
"Revenue" to span two columns with a solid line, and for there to be enough
space at the edges of the spanned columns for the reader to make out that
the spanner is indeed separate from adjacent columns. See this page for
examples.
So how does one handle spanners in LyX?
Hi Marshall,
If I understand correctly, what you refer to as "spanners" LyX would
refer to as "multi-column". In a table, select a couple of rows and
click on "multi-column" in the table toolbar (which is at the bottom
of the screen and is activated when the cursor is in a table).
Best,
Scott
Thanks, Scott.
Well it's not exactly multicolumn, at least not how I understand this
term. A cell that's multicolumn spans more than one column. This
relates to spanners, but it's only part of the issue.
A spanner is a line under the heading for the multicolumn cell. The
line does not run the full width of the original columns that went
into the multicolumn cell. Since the spanner typically serves as a
heading indicating which columns fall under the heading, there has to
be some way to distinguish the columns falling under the heading from
other, adjacent columns. This is why the spanner line is shorter than
the combined widths of the original columns: whitespace on either side
of the line separates it from lines in adjacent cells.
I'll try to draw a picture:
*Greetings* Century
_Holiday_ --------------------------- -------------- <= These
dashed lines are "spanners"
_Coming_ _Going_ _18_ _19_ _20_ _21_
Mardis Gras Want beads? Happy Mardi Gras X X
Xmas Merry Xmas Merry Xmas X X X
Thanks for your help.
Marsh
