Lyx is not for everyone. Some are better off using a word processor, and, for
reasons which escape me, many of those folks find it hard to wean themselves
from Word. Charles Dickens got by with pen and ink.
On Thursday, March 27, 2014 06:09:30 AM Cee Van Houten wrote:
> In the manual i was told a thousand times
> that with lyx i could focus on
> the content, not on the layout...
> which sounded great.
> Yet i was trying to create a table
> today which was a little bit to wide.
> Lyx didnt warn me it was to wide nor
> did it make any corrections itself.
> and after searching the manual all i
> could come up with was this:
>
> \backslash\mbox{columnwidth}
> =3\, W_{\mathrm{Spalte}}+2\csot0,75\,
> W_{\mathrm{Spalte}}+\backslash\mbox
> {arrayrulewidth}
> \phantom{=\,}+5\left(2\backslash\mbox
> {tabcolsep}+\backslash\mbox{arrayrulewidth}\right)
> =4,5\, W_{\mathrm{Spalte}}+62,4\,\mathrm{pt}
> W_{\mathrm{Spalte}}
> =\frac{\backslash\mbox{columnwidth}
> -62,4\,\mathrm{pt}}{4,5}
>
> so thats the only way to correct that
> issue without trial and error?
> are you kidding me? Or am i missing
> something? i must be, because MS word is
> much easier on that one, as it
> doesnt require converting the file
> every time i made some trials.
>
> greetings.
