On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Tom Hopper <tomhop...@gmail.com> wrote: > This might do what you want: > http://texblog.org/2011/09/02/coloring-every-alternate-table-row/ > > From that page, define the following in your preamble, and you should get > alternating colors in all tables: > \usepackage[table]{color} > \definecolor{lightgray}{gray}{0.9} > \let\oldtabular\tabular > \let\endoldtabular\endtabular > \renewenvironment{tabular}{\rowcolors{2}{white}{lightgray}\oldtabular}{\endoldtabular} > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 7:40 AM, uudruid74 <uudrui...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Can LyX do shaded backgrounds in tables? I want to shade every other line >> (like old mainframe computer paper) so that large tables are easier to >> read. >> Can it do this without manually formatting every line? Or would it be >> easier to use a spreadsheet app and then print to a file and import it as >> a >> big graphic? Some combination of printer filters should give me an EPS or >> whatever I could bring in. >> >> Comments? Ideas? Suggestions?
Good find, Tom. uudruid, also take a look at Help > EmbeddedObjects. In particular, see Table 2.16, "Table where every second row is colored light gray." In fact, you might want to go through all of the help files. They have a lot of good information and although it will take some time, you will learn a lot. Best, Scott
