On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid> wrote: > Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid> wrote: >>> I have a table in which I wish some cells to contain multiple >>> paragraphs. I can apparently create separate paragraphs by the normal >>> method of hitting Enter, at least as far as it appears within LyX, but >>> when I attempt to export to PDF I get a series of errors beginning >>> with: >>> >>> Paragraph ended before \@item was complete. >>> >>> and the last three words of the first paragraph are highlighted. >>> >>> This is with LyX 2.1.0 under FreeBSD. >>> >>> I'm including a stripped down version of the problem LyX file below. >> >> Hi Will, >> >> Thanks for reporting this. I tried your example and indeed I get an >> error when compiling. However if I change the layout from >> "Description" to "Standard" (place the cursor in front of the table, >> and do <alt + p, s>) then the file compiles fine. Note that the reason >> you can enter lines is because in that column you have a fixed width. >> >> I don't know enough about tables or long tables in LaTeX to know if >> there is a LyX bug here. > > Thanks, that seems to have partially solved the problem. Partially, > because although I can now export to PDF without an error, the > paragraphs are not separated by a space as they are in the main body > of the text. (The stripped down test file I posted doesn't have any > text outside the table, but it's apparent in the real document.) > > Although my preferred style for separating paragraphs is by using a > blank line, I changed it to the default way of using indentation to > see what would happen, and indeed the paragraphs inside the table cell > are displayed the same, i.e., no separation or indentation. Is there > a fundamental problem with using paragraphs inside a table? (I notice > that while the main text outside the table shows up as "Standard" > style, the text inside the table shows as "Plain Layout", and > "Standard" does not seem to be available.) > > I suppose it might be possible to get around this by placing > individual paragraphs in separate table cells and selectively > suppressing cell boundary lines, but that sounds awfully fiddly.
Another idea is to use a minipage. Go to Insert > Box > Frameless. Then try putting vertical space in (Insert > Formatting > Vertical Space). > so whether there's a bug or not in LyX, I think there > is room for improvement in error handling. Sounds good. Please post any bug or feature request on http://www.lyx.org/trac and if you are interested in contributing a patch, that would of course be welcome too. Best, Scott
