2014-03-27 16:15 GMT+01:00 Cee Van Houten: > all i want to do is fixing a table which is too wide to display correctly > automatically by making the fonts smaller or adding word wraps or something > like that instead of just 'cutting off' the table. > > solving it by giving the coloumns fixed widths related to the page width > doesnt seem to do the trick either as a column i tested it with was far > wider then the 50% i specifed. >
Note there is a space between columns which you need to take into account. This sums up to the overall width. So make it a bit less than 50%. In LaTeX, there is the tabularx package which solves this problem. It is not yet natively supported by LyX (nobody stepped forward to do this). LyX supports the tabular* environment via the "Table width" setting, but its result is more often than not unsatisfactory. HTH Jürgen
