import ascii into tables

1999-09-07 Thread DIETER LEHMANN
Hi Lyx-users, what is the best way to import ascii text into tables? The text is in the following structure: Spalte1, Spalte2, Spalte3 (=heading) element1, element2, element3 something1, something2, something3 ... thanks, Dieter _ Dieter Lehmann State

Re: import ascii into tables

1999-09-07 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 09:19:50AM +0200, DIETER LEHMANN wrote: Hi Lyx-users, what is the best way to import ascii text into tables? The text is in the following structure: Spalte1, Spalte2, Spalte3 (=heading) element1, element2, element3 something1, something2, something3 I'd create

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Arcady Genkin wrote: I find that creating tables is quite an awkward process in LyX. What a shame -- the program handles everything else so gracefully. I heard other comments too, but probably that is really subjective :) I figured out I have to specify the table width

Re: import ascii into tables

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: I'd create a short LyX document with a small table. Then, look at the LyX document itself and write a quick perl script to generate the right LyX codes. That's our perl gurus ;) Jürgen

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
On 07-Sep-99 Juergen Vigna wrote: On 07-Sep-99 Arcady Genkin wrote: I find that creating tables is quite an awkward process in LyX. What a shame -- the program handles everything else so gracefully. I heard other comments too, but probably that is really subjective :) Hm, I am

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Oliver Eichler wrote: Hm, I am currently trying to convince my girlfriend to use lyx. Everything is quite fine for her, except the tables. She, too, moans a lot about the way tables are done in lyx. I have got the feeling that one of the biggest problems is the missing

RE: Tables stuff plus more

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
Maybe, it depends if you can give me a real cause ;). Just telling I don't like it and not saying what you don't like or how you would like things done is not very helpfull. You are right :), I am sorry. The trouble began, when she noticed that latex will produce endless lines over the

RE: Tables stuff plus more

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Oliver Eichler wrote: Maybe, it depends if you can give me a real cause ;). Just telling I don't like it and not saying what you don't like or how you would like things done is not very helpfull. You are right :), I am sorry. #:O) single line. And I doubt a real

Minipages (was: Tables stuff plus more)

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
click? Plus having a crosscheck if it makes sense with the currently selected amount of text to do so, for all the cases the selected text would span two pages and more. I don't really understand what you did or what you wanted to do :), but using minipages seems to me a bit wrong as

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
Yes it gives me a better idea and I'm sorry to have to tell you that this isn't possible to change :( LyX is as you said WYSIWYMG and this is one of the examples where you cannot get nearer to the WYSIWYG picture as it is now. What I'd like to change in tabulars is: - allow more

Re: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Arcady Genkin
Juergen Vigna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe, it depends if you can give me a real cause ;). Just telling I don't like it and not saying what you don't like or how you would like things done is not very helpfull. Ok, *my* frustration with tables: 1. Table size. It would be very nice if the

apalike.bst and line wrapping

1999-09-07 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! I am using apalike.bst for my bibliography. It works fine, but it has a minor flaw: if the references are quite long, and they happen to come towards the end of the line, the program will not split them or anything, they will just keep on going over the right margin's justification.

Re: Minipages (was: Tables stuff plus more)

1999-09-07 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Oliver Eichler wrote: Sure I could manually insert a page break, but this would completely disturbe the auto-formating and produce "Windows quality". Why that? Do you used the book-class, where you want to have all last lines on the same position? I think, that latex will

Re: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
Note, that I have a table wih 2 columns 3cm and 7cm, and below it a table with 10 columns 1cm each. Shouldn't they match in size? ;^) No. In the first case the width of your table is 10 cm + \tabcolsep, in the latter 10cm + 9 \tabcolsep. This is standard LaTeX behaviour. Andre' -- Andre'

generic functions

1999-09-07 Thread Peter Biltzinger
I have a general question: Is it possible to include a LaTex-style into LyX in a way, that I can create a entry in the 'insert' menu in order to use e.g. new commands directly with the menus? Peter

import ascii into tables

1999-09-07 Thread DIETER LEHMANN
Hi Lyx-users, what is the best way to import ascii text into tables? The text is in the following structure: Spalte1, Spalte2, Spalte3 (=heading) element1, element2, element3 something1, something2, something3 ... thanks, Dieter _ Dieter Lehmann State

Re: import ascii into tables

1999-09-07 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 09:19:50AM +0200, DIETER LEHMANN wrote: Hi Lyx-users, what is the best way to import ascii text into tables? The text is in the following structure: Spalte1, Spalte2, Spalte3 (=heading) element1, element2, element3 something1, something2, something3 I'd create

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Arcady Genkin wrote: I find that creating tables is quite an awkward process in LyX. What a shame -- the program handles everything else so gracefully. I heard other comments too, but probably that is really subjective :) I figured out I have to specify the table width

Re: import ascii into tables

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: I'd create a short LyX document with a small table. Then, look at the LyX document itself and write a quick perl script to generate the right LyX codes. That's our perl gurus ;) Jürgen

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
On 07-Sep-99 Juergen Vigna wrote: On 07-Sep-99 Arcady Genkin wrote: I find that creating tables is quite an awkward process in LyX. What a shame -- the program handles everything else so gracefully. I heard other comments too, but probably that is really subjective :) Hm, I am

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Oliver Eichler wrote: Hm, I am currently trying to convince my girlfriend to use lyx. Everything is quite fine for her, except the tables. She, too, moans a lot about the way tables are done in lyx. I have got the feeling that one of the biggest problems is the missing

RE: Tables stuff plus more

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
Maybe, it depends if you can give me a real cause ;). Just telling I don't like it and not saying what you don't like or how you would like things done is not very helpfull. You are right :), I am sorry. The trouble began, when she noticed that latex will produce endless lines over the

RE: Tables stuff plus more

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Oliver Eichler wrote: Maybe, it depends if you can give me a real cause ;). Just telling I don't like it and not saying what you don't like or how you would like things done is not very helpfull. You are right :), I am sorry. #:O) single line. And I doubt a real

Minipages (was: Tables stuff plus more)

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
click? Plus having a crosscheck if it makes sense with the currently selected amount of text to do so, for all the cases the selected text would span two pages and more. I don't really understand what you did or what you wanted to do :), but using minipages seems to me a bit wrong as

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
Yes it gives me a better idea and I'm sorry to have to tell you that this isn't possible to change :( LyX is as you said WYSIWYMG and this is one of the examples where you cannot get nearer to the WYSIWYG picture as it is now. What I'd like to change in tabulars is: - allow more

Re: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Arcady Genkin
Juergen Vigna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe, it depends if you can give me a real cause ;). Just telling I don't like it and not saying what you don't like or how you would like things done is not very helpfull. Ok, *my* frustration with tables: 1. Table size. It would be very nice if the

apalike.bst and line wrapping

1999-09-07 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! I am using apalike.bst for my bibliography. It works fine, but it has a minor flaw: if the references are quite long, and they happen to come towards the end of the line, the program will not split them or anything, they will just keep on going over the right margin's justification.

Re: Minipages (was: Tables stuff plus more)

1999-09-07 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Oliver Eichler wrote: Sure I could manually insert a page break, but this would completely disturbe the auto-formating and produce "Windows quality". Why that? Do you used the book-class, where you want to have all last lines on the same position? I think, that latex will

Re: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
Note, that I have a table wih 2 columns 3cm and 7cm, and below it a table with 10 columns 1cm each. Shouldn't they match in size? ;^) No. In the first case the width of your table is 10 cm + \tabcolsep, in the latter 10cm + 9 \tabcolsep. This is standard LaTeX behaviour. Andre' -- Andre'

generic functions

1999-09-07 Thread Peter Biltzinger
I have a general question: Is it possible to include a LaTex-style into LyX in a way, that I can create a entry in the 'insert' menu in order to use e.g. new commands directly with the menus? Peter

import ascii into tables

1999-09-07 Thread DIETER LEHMANN
Hi Lyx-users, what is the best way to import ascii text into tables? The text is in the following structure: Spalte1, Spalte2, Spalte3 (=heading) element1, element2, element3 something1, something2, something3 ... thanks, Dieter _ Dieter Lehmann State

Re: import ascii into tables

1999-09-07 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 09:19:50AM +0200, DIETER LEHMANN wrote: > Hi Lyx-users, > what is the best way to import ascii text into tables? > > The text is in the following structure: > > Spalte1, Spalte2, Spalte3 (=heading) > element1, element2, element3 > something1, something2, something3 I'd

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Arcady Genkin wrote: > > I find that creating tables is quite an awkward process in LyX. What a > shame -- the program handles everything else so gracefully. > I heard other comments too, but probably that is really subjective :) > > I figured out I have to specify the table

Re: import ascii into tables

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > I'd create a short LyX document with a small table. > > Then, look at the LyX document itself and write a quick perl script to > generate the right LyX codes. That's our perl gurus ;) Jürgen

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
On 07-Sep-99 Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 07-Sep-99 Arcady Genkin wrote: >> >> I find that creating tables is quite an awkward process in LyX. What a >> shame -- the program handles everything else so gracefully. >> > > I heard other comments too, but probably that is really subjective :) >

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Oliver Eichler wrote: > > Hm, I am currently trying to convince my girlfriend to use lyx. Everything is > quite fine for her, except the tables. She, too, moans a lot about the way > tables are done in lyx. I have got the feeling that one of the biggest problems > is the missing

RE: Tables stuff plus more

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
>> > > Maybe, it depends if you can give me a real cause ;). Just telling I don't > like it and not saying what you don't like or how you would like things done > is not very helpfull. > You are right :), I am sorry. The trouble began, when she noticed that latex will produce endless lines

RE: Tables stuff plus more

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Oliver Eichler wrote: >>> >> >> Maybe, it depends if you can give me a real cause ;). Just telling I don't >> like it and not saying what you don't like or how you would like things done >> is not very helpfull. >> > > You are right :), I am sorry. > #:O) > single line. And I

Minipages (was: Tables stuff plus more)

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
>> click? Plus having a crosscheck if it makes sense with the currently >> selected >> amount of text to do so, for all the cases the selected text would span two >> pages and more. >> > > I don't really understand what you did or what you wanted to do :), but > using minipages seems to me a

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
> > Yes it gives me a better idea and I'm sorry to have to tell you that this > isn't possible to change :( LyX is as you said WYSIWYMG and this is one > of the examples where you cannot get nearer to the WYSIWYG picture as it > is now. > > What I'd like to change in tabulars is: > > - allow

Re: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Arcady Genkin
Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe, it depends if you can give me a real cause ;). Just telling I don't > like it and not saying what you don't like or how you would like things done > is not very helpfull. Ok, *my* frustration with tables: 1. Table size. It would be very nice

apalike.bst and line wrapping

1999-09-07 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! I am using apalike.bst for my bibliography. It works fine, but it has a minor flaw: if the references are quite long, and they happen to come towards the end of the line, the program will not split them or anything, they will just keep on going over the right margin's justification.

Re: Minipages (was: Tables stuff plus more)

1999-09-07 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Oliver Eichler wrote: >Sure I could manually insert a page break, but this would >completely disturbe the auto-formating and produce "Windows >quality". Why that? Do you used the book-class, where you want to have all last lines on the same position? I think, that latex

Re: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
> Note, that I have a table wih 2 columns 3cm and 7cm, and below it a > table with 10 columns 1cm each. Shouldn't they match in size? ;^) No. In the first case the width of your table is 10 cm + \tabcolsep, in the latter 10cm + 9 \tabcolsep. This is standard LaTeX behaviour. Andre' --

generic functions

1999-09-07 Thread Peter Biltzinger
I have a general question: Is it possible to include a LaTex-style into LyX in a way, that I can create a entry in the 'insert' menu in order to use e.g. new commands directly with the menus? Peter