What I did is enclose my table in:
\resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}{}
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Am 27.03.2014 14:09, schrieb Cee Van Houten:
>
>> 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.
>
> This is because the table width cannot be calculated by LyX. This can only be
> done by LaTeX itself. For example the font size, the font itself, the
> thickness of table lines the space between table lines and the text can change
> the width in the output.
>
> However LyX's EmbeddedObjects manual explains how the exact table width can be
> calculated, see its Appendix D.
> As the exact calculation is much too complicated for daily usage, simply set
> the table colums to percentages of the column width. For example if you have a
> table with 3 columns and each column should have the same width, set each
> column to a width of 30 col%. I attached an example. So the rule of thumb is
> to set each column to a slightly lesser width than geometrically calculated
> (30% for 3 cols, 22% for 4 cols, 47% for 2 cols etc).
>
>> 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}
>
> From where do you have this code? (What section of the EmbeddedObjects manual
> and what is your LyX
> version?)
>
> > because MS word is much easier on that one
>
> Really? Show me how to create a table that has automatically a page break when
> there iot enough space on the page, where you can define a different table
> header/footer line for each page te table is printed etc. LyX's longtable
> feature is unique I would say. Show me how to let tables automatically float
> to a good-looking position in the document. This floating concept is one of
> the major advantages compared to Word, LibreOffice etc. LyX is not perfect but
> you will notice that the working speed you can get with LyX will be greater
> than with Word. Also check out the new LyX 2.1 that comes out around April, 5:
> http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
> we have improved the table handling a bit.
>
> regards Uwe
