Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Will Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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).
Well, it sounded promising, but... Yes, it does succeed in separating the paragraphs, but the text of the paragraph in the box spills out of the bounds of the table when converted to PDF. Ouch! >> 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. I will if I can come up with a reasonable formulation. "Please improve error handling" seems to be a bit too vague to expect anyone to act on :) As for contributing a patch, well, I do have extensive experience with C, and to a lesser extent C++ (though my C++ is a bit rusty now), but I know nothing about LaTeX, and have never looked at the LyX code base. -- Will
