Re: Multiple Lines in Table Cell

2016-06-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Paul A. Rubin wrote: This makes the two columns into a single column for that row. That's a horse of a different garage. Um, no, it makes two rows into a single row for that column, which is a mule of a different stable. Paul, Two ways of describing the same thing.

Re: Multiple Lines in Table Cell

2016-06-08 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Rich Shepard appl-ecosys.com> writes: > >That's correct. By setting the column width of the cell I want to span two > lines to a length that accommodates the text on each line then I have a > narrow cell with two lines of column heading text. > > > Let's say I have two columns and join

Re: Multiple Lines in Table Cell

2016-06-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I may not be understanding what you want. If you make the headings of some columns span multiple rows, that does not affect the headings of other columns. Paul, That's correct. By setting the column width of the cell I want to span two lines to a

Re: Multiple Lines in Table Cell

2016-06-07 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Rich Shepard appl-ecosys.com> writes: > >The pattern I used to use back in the early Pleistocene was to place > single column headings on the bottom row when other columns had multiple > rows. Doing this in LyX using the embedded \linebreak is not working. > >Has table typesetting

Multiple Lines in Table Cell

2016-06-07 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm running lyx-2.2.0 on Slackware and have a question on multiple lines in a table cell that was not answered in the wiki's page on tables. The pattern I used to use back in the early Pleistocene was to place single column headings on the bottom row when other columns had multiple rows