I use the booktabs package to produce better tables than those produced by
the default LaTeX table environment. The trouble is that when I import
LaTeX files using its commands into LyX 0.12.1pre8, LyX thinks it
understands the tables and mis-converts them (for example, it puts the
wrong bits in the wrong cells and joins lines together at the ends of
tables). I'd rather it simply didn't try to convert the tables.
Actually, looking at it it seems it's more of a bug than a problem with
booktabs: a typical table of mine is:
\begin{ctabular}{cc} \toprule
\bf Type & \bf Code \\ \midrule
Register & 00b \\
Local label & 01b \\
Global label & 10b \\ \bottomrule
\end{ctabular}
which comes out as:
\toprule | Type
Code | \midrule
register | 00b
Local label | 01b | Global label | 10b | \bottomrule
(ctabular is just an abbreviation for a center environment with a tabular
inside it, which LyX seems to have understood except that the table
isn't centred).
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