Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-15 Thread Rob Oakes
Any number of InsetLayouts can be placed in a module. You will want to make sure that you define a new macro, however. Cheers, Rob Sent from Rob's Palm On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:16 PM, "stephen's mailinglist account" > wrote: Can more than one inset layout be placed in a module? Or does this

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-15 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
Can more than one inset layout be placed in a module? Or does this (landscape longtable) have to be a second module? 2010/1/15 stephen's mailinglist account : > 2010/1/15 Rob Oakes : >> Dear Daniel, Liviu and Other LyX Users, >> >> Daniel and Liviu, thank you very much for the recommendations and

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-15 Thread stephen's mailinglist account
2010/1/15 Rob Oakes : > Dear Daniel, Liviu and Other LyX Users, > > Daniel and Liviu, thank you very much for the recommendations and for the > link.  I've been experimenting with the \afterpage package all morning, and I > am very happy to report that it works famously.  I am able to exactly the

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-15 Thread Rob Oakes
l list Subject: Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: > a clean solution might be possible using the afterpage package. > Basically it provides the \afterpage{} command, which > causes the expansion of to be postponed unt

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote: > a clean solution might be possible using the afterpage package. Basically it > provides the \afterpage{} command, which causes the expansion of > to be postponed until LaTeX has shipped out the current page. If > you insert your long table

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-14 Thread Daniel Lohmann
Hi Rob, a clean solution might be possible using the afterpage package. Basically it provides the \afterpage{} command, which causes the expansion of to be postponed until LaTeX has shipped out the current page. If you insert your long table this way, it should (theoretically) appear on

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Rob On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: > Are you aware of a method to position long tables so that they combine the > best featrues of the float environment (e.g. semi-automatic displacement so > that they don't disrupt the flow of the text) and the long-table environment

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Helge Hafting wrote: > So: > > When you want a one-piece table, use a table inside a float. > > When you want a table that can break across pages, use a longtable > without the float. > > And if you want several tables so that the page can break > between th

RE: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-14 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Helge, You make good points, but there is a third use case that I am currently struggling with (and which Liviu's solution appears to address, at least in part). What do you do with long tables that you don't want to disrupt the flow of the text? Let me give you an example. I am currentl

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-14 Thread Helge Hafting
Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all Sorry for the cross-posting, but this is at the same time posting a solution and requesting a feature. I've been using table floats with subfloats and normal tables, and they work nicely. However, when the float becomes too long for the page---because of the length

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-11 Thread Manveru
2010/1/11 Liviu Andronic : > On 1/11/10, Manveru wrote: >> It sounds interesting to have such functionality, but if you have >>  LaTeX-based solution you should consider publishing it as a package, >>  then it could be used by LyX. >> > The solution uses the package subfloat, an existing LaTeX pac

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 1/11/10, Manveru wrote: > It sounds interesting to have such functionality, but if you have > LaTeX-based solution you should consider publishing it as a package, > then it could be used by LyX. > The solution uses the package subfloat, an existing LaTeX package. Liviu

Re: floats and subfloats with longtables SOLVED

2010-01-11 Thread Manveru
2010/1/9 Liviu Andronic : [...] > I've been using table floats with subfloats and normal tables, and > they work nicely. However, when the float becomes too long for the > page---because of the length of the subtables---, it will not break. > I've tried to use longtables in the subfloats, but compi