Re: Tables

[Eberhard W Lisse]

2.4.3 is current

el

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Re: Tables

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

And there were TONS of improvements to tables in 2.4.0.

On 3/30/25 12:22 PM, Eberhard W Lisse wrote:

2.4.3 is current

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I am using Lyx 2.3.7

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Re: Tables: Setting width for entire column

[Udicoudco]

The column headers are in the first row, and centered. Unchecking
> multicolumn for the two header cells doesn't allow me to center them above
> the left-aligned cells beneath them.
>

 The column headers are in the second row, the first row is the caption.
You don't need to uncheck multicolumn in the headers, just keep the
width field empty, see the attached file I sent in the previous mail.

Regards,
Udi

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Re: Tables: Setting width for entire column

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, Udicoudco wrote:


Since the alignment of the text inside the second row is centered,
contrary to the rest of the tabular, these cells are typeset inside
\multicell, and in this case their width can be independent from the width
of their column.


Udi,

The column headers are in the first row, and centered. Unchecking
multicolumn for the two header cells doesn't allow me to center them above
the left-aligned cells beneath them.


If you will keep the column width field in the settings empty, they will
have the same width as the rest of the column (currently they have widths
of 45% and 55% of \textwidth, thus the table flows out of the screen).
Change the column width only when the cursor is below the headings.


With the cursor in each of the header cells, there's no width, but the
alignment is Left. The top and bottom borders for the first row, and the
bottom border for the last row slightly overlap the text area.

I'll ignore the left-aligned column headers and slight overhang of the
borders because they're not critical.

Thanks,

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Re: Tables: Setting width for entire column

[Udicoudco]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 7:30 PM Rich Shepard 
wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>
> > I'm with Udi on this. Maybe you should post a MWE?
>
> Paul, Udi:
>
> I placed the cursor in a cell below the first row (for each column) and
> changed the widths from inches to % text area (43%, 53%). Not using the top
> row cell made a difference.
>
> The table heading and the cell underlines overhang the right margin a bit.
> I
> don't know how fix this.
>
> MWE attached.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rich--
>

Since the alignment of the text inside the second
row is centered, contrary to the rest of the tabular,
these cells are typeset inside \multicell, and in this
case their width can be independent from the width
of their column.

If you will keep the column width field in the settings empty,
they will have the same width as the rest of the column
(currently they have widths of 45% and 55% of \textwidth, thus
the table flows out of the screen).
Change the column width only when the cursor is below
the headings.

Regards,
Udi


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Re: Tables: Setting width for entire column

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, Paul A. Rubin wrote:


I'm with Udi on this. Maybe you should post a MWE?


Paul, Udi:

I placed the cursor in a cell below the first row (for each column) and
changed the widths from inches to % text area (43%, 53%). Not using the top
row cell made a difference.

The table heading and the cell underlines overhang the right margin a bit. I
don't know how fix this.

MWE attached.

Regards,

Rich#LyX 2.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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Re: Tables: Setting width for entire column

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 2/10/23 11:32, Rich Shepard wrote:

On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, Udicoudco wrote:


Right click on the table and select "settings..." to open the tabular
settings dialog. Put the cursor in a cell inside the column you want to
change, and in the settings dialog in Table settings->Column settings
change the width to the desired one.


Udi,

That's what I did. The cursor is in the top row of the column and Column
settings changes only that one cell.

Thanks,

Rich

I'm with Udi on this. Maybe you should post a MWE?

Paul

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Re: Tables: Setting width for entire column

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, Udicoudco wrote:


Right click on the table and select "settings..." to open the tabular
settings dialog. Put the cursor in a cell inside the column you want to
change, and in the settings dialog in Table settings->Column settings
change the width to the desired one.


Udi,

That's what I did. The cursor is in the top row of the column and Column
settings changes only that one cell.

Thanks,

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Re: Tables: Setting width for entire column

[Udicoudco]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 5:59 PM Rich Shepard 
wrote:

> I've looked at the table settings, the User Guide, and the Wiki without
> learning how to set the width of an entire column. One table has many rows
> (it's a multipage table), and I'm able to change the width of only the cell
> in which the cursor is located.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
> --
>

Right click on the table and select "settings..." to open the tabular
settings dialog.
Put the  cursor in a cell inside the column you want to change, and in the
settings dialog in Table settings->Column settings change the width to the
desired one.

Regards,
Udi

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Re: Tables

[John Coppens]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:29:33 -0700
Hal Kierstead  wrote:

>  Am I doing something wrong?

Did you actually set the column width with the table property editor?

And use the correct units? I seem to remember that the default unit is
'cm' (which I can't convince myself to use). Maybe you set 20cm instead
of 20mm?

I suspect you already tried that...

John

Re: Tables

[Csikos Bela]

Hal Kierstead  írta:
On Jan 11, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Csikos Bela wrote:>
>
> Hal Kierstead  írta:>
> Hello,>
> >
> Using LyX 2.02, I am trying to make a table with two columns---one 1 inches 
> wide and the other 5 inches wide. When I enter this using the table settings 
> dialog, every thing looks right in LyX, but when I export it both columns are 
> 5 inches wide.  What am I doing wrong?  Does it matter that I am using the 
> AMS book class?>
> >
> Hal>
> >
> >
> Hello:>
> >
> Export to what? PDF, dvi, plain tex?>
> I tried to make a table like this and it as expexted when viewed as pdf>
> using export PDF (pdflatex).>
> I am attaching the lyx file and the resulted pdf file.>
> >
> Just for clarity: you have to set the width of the columns individually.>
> Click in the left column - right click - more - settings - Table settings tab 
> - Columns settings: set width 1 inch. Repeat this with the right column, but 
> set it to 5 inch.>
> >
>BCikos ->
>
Thanks for your interest.  Here is a simple lyx document, the exported tex 
document and the pdf it generates.  I created the LyX document just as you 
said, and it looks fine in LyX, but not in the pdf version.  I see you inserted 
your table in a float, but this did not help when I tried it.>
>
Thanks again,>
>
Hal>


Hello:

Please do not top post.

I looked at your lyx file and found that the pdfsync package causes the 
problem. Remove that from the preamble and your table will look as expected. I 
would not use the fullpage package either as you can
set the margins in lyx easily. Note that your example texts overhang
the borders because they don't contain any space and can not
be hyphenated either.

bcsikos

Re: Tables

[Hal Kierstead]

BCikos -

Thanks for your interest.  Here is a simple lyx document, the exported tex 
document and the pdf it generates.  I created the LyX document just as you 
said, and it looks fine in LyX, but not in the pdf version.  I see you inserted 
your table in a float, but this did not help when I tried it.

Thanks again,

Hal

On Jan 11, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Csikos Bela wrote:

> Hal Kierstead  írta:
> Hello,
> 
> Using LyX 2.02, I am trying to make a table with two columns---one 1 inches 
> wide and the other 5 inches wide. When I enter this using the table settings 
> dialog, every thing looks right in LyX, but when I export it both columns are 
> 5 inches wide.  What am I doing wrong?  Does it matter that I am using the 
> AMS book class?
> 
> Hal
> 
> 
> Hello:
> 
> Export to what? PDF, dvi, plain tex?
> I tried to make a table like this and it as expexted when viewed as pdf
> using export PDF (pdflatex).
> I am attaching the lyx file and the resulted pdf file.
> 
> Just for clarity: you have to set the width of the columns individually.
> Click in the left column - right click - more - settings - Table settings tab 
> - Columns settings: set width 1 inch. Repeat this with the right column, but 
> set it to 5 inch.
> 
> bcsikos
> 




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Re: Tables

[Csikos Bela]

Hal Kierstead  írta:
Hello,

Using LyX 2.02, I am trying to make a table with two columns---one 1 inches 
wide and the other 5 inches wide. When I enter this using the table settings 
dialog, every thing looks right in LyX, but when I export it both columns are 5 
inches wide.  What am I doing wrong?  Does it matter that I am using the AMS 
book class?

Hal


Hello:

Export to what? PDF, dvi, plain tex?
I tried to make a table like this and it as expexted when viewed as pdf
using export PDF (pdflatex).
I am attaching the lyx file and the resulted pdf file.

Just for clarity: you have to set the width of the columns individually.
Click in the left column - right click - more - settings - Table settings tab - 
Columns settings: set width 1 inch. Repeat this with the right column, but set 
it to 5 inch.

bcsikos


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Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: Tables...

[Francesco Menoncin]

Il 22/12/2011 04:55, lux.ste...@libero.it ha scritto:

Hi all,

I have lots of troubles in exporting a table from .tex to lyx. An error
message with "UNDEFINED  CONTROL SEQUENCE" pops up.

The .tex code is the following:

\begin{table}[htbp]   \centering   \caption{Add caption} \begin{tabular}
{r} \addlinespace \toprule Earnings&  numgiven&  clique&
cowork\_ag&  propkin&  proprelig&  deage&  propnewfr&  avgfrndeduc \\
\midrule Below median&  3.352442&  3.189791&  0.970276&  0.479005&  0.74708
&  33.4612&  0.101146&  4.094087 \\ Above median&  3.078189&  3.073643&
0.574949&  0.539666&  0.791044&  36.59603&  0.153194&  3.452166 \\ Total&
3.213166&  3.131339&  0.769311&  0.509949&  0.769507&  35.03208&  0.127256&
3.772063 \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular}   \label{tab:addlabel} \end
{table}

Anyone can help me?

Are there any additional programs I should install? How can I install them?

Many thanks.

Lux

I have tried to write your code in LaTeX and import it in LyX but 
everything works fine for me.

You just have to recall to add the package "booktabs" in the preamble.

Francesco

Re: Tables and more tables

[Pavel Sanda]

John Coppens wrote:
> > This is a known problem. The situation will be much better in the next 
> > major LyX version 2.0.
> 
> Thanks for the reply Uwe.
> 
> I'm not clear if the beta is stable enough to replace 1.6.7? 

we don't recommend to use any of 2.0alpha/beta for serious work, thats why we
call them alpha/beta. the moment we feel some stability has been gained
we will release 2.0.

pavel

Re: Tables and more tables

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 11.09.2010 06:47, schrieb John Coppens:


I'm not clear if the beta is stable enough to replace 1.6.7?


There is not yet a beta version of LyX 2.0.


2) Table in table:

I had to put a small table inside another table. The table borders are
touching, which isn't too aesthetic...


Insert some horizontal or vertical space if necessary. The
EmbeddedObkects manual that you find in LyX's Help emnu shows you many
examples how to do this. (Start with sec. 3.7 "Subfloats" and/or sec.
2.12.1 "Row Spacing".)


I tried the suggestions in 2.12.1:
   I added 3 mm 'bottom of the row', but no difference came out in the
PDF (the screen did update, and to be sure I also clicked 'update' PDF).
DVI didn't show the space either.


Do you have a _small_ LyX example file for me?

regards Uwe

Re: Tables and more tables

[John Coppens]

On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:03:44 +0200
Uwe Stöhr  wrote:

> Am 09.09.2010 18:45, schrieb John Coppens:
> 
> > 1) Scrolling:
> >
> > When a table gets a bit large (mostly wide), scrolling becomes
> > unmanageable. No scrollbar is available to move the screen around,
> 
> This is a known problem. The situation will be much better in the next 
> major LyX version 2.0.

Thanks for the reply Uwe.

I'm not clear if the beta is stable enough to replace 1.6.7? 

> > 2) Table in table:
> >
> > I had to put a small table inside another table. The table borders are
> > touching, which isn't too aesthetic...
> 
> Insert some horizontal or vertical space if necessary. The 
> EmbeddedObkects manual that you find in LyX's Help emnu shows you many 
> examples how to do this. (Start with sec. 3.7 "Subfloats" and/or sec. 
> 2.12.1 "Row Spacing".)

I tried the suggestions in 2.12.1:
  I added 3 mm 'bottom of the row', but no difference came out in the
PDF (the screen did update, and to be sure I also clicked 'update' PDF).
DVI didn't show the space either.

3.7 mentions putting minipages... Tried that too. That made the
register tables go outside the outer table (to the right). Tried to
adjust sizes (as text %, as cm etc, but all tests gave unpredictable
results.

None of the tests allowed to add spacing below the inner table.

I also tested (as I commented in the previous mail), that inserting a
vertical space below the inner table actually works, but doesn't
communicate the new size to the outer table, so the bottom border of
the table row disappears.

It's a small document. If someone would like to have a go, I'll post
the LyX file.

Thanks!
John

Re: Tables and more tables

[John Coppens]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:53:28 -0400
Todd Denniston  wrote:

> I do this when I have a document in which I am doing a lot of table editing.
> Hope this helps some.

Great idea, Todd. Thanks

John

Re: Tables and more tables

[Todd Denniston]

John Coppens wrote, On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM:
> Hello people,
> 
> Two problems with tables:
> 
> 1) Scrolling:
> 
> When a table gets a bit large (mostly wide), scrolling becomes

> 
> I already disabled the automatic table toolbar. The toolbar made things
> worse by causing extra scrolling.
> 
> Is there any way to get a more predictable behaviour?
> 

If the toolbar is of use to you, I have found that "locking" it in made the 
situation better.
to lock it in...
get into some standard text
select View->Toolbars
select "Table (auto)"

If you look back in View->Toolbars it will show a check mark next to "Table 
(auto)", and the Table
toolbar will stay stuck on LyX User Interface until you undo the check mark, 
thus less random scrolling.

I do this when I have a document in which I am doing a lot of table editing.
Hope this helps some.
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Re: Tables and more tables

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 09.09.2010 18:45, schrieb John Coppens:


1) Scrolling:

When a table gets a bit large (mostly wide), scrolling becomes
unmanageable. No scrollbar is available to move the screen around,


This is a known problem. The situation will be much better in the next 
major LyX version 2.0.



2) Table in table:

I had to put a small table inside another table. The table borders are
touching, which isn't too aesthetic...


Insert some horizontal or vertical space if necessary. The 
EmbeddedObkects manual that you find in LyX's Help emnu shows you many 
examples how to do this. (Start with sec. 3.7 "Subfloats" and/or sec. 
2.12.1 "Row Spacing".)


regards Uwe

Re: Tables' numbers lyx-PDF file

[Manveru]

2009/12/23 Matteo A. :
> i tried but it doesn't work..it doesn't changes anything.
>
> i am using lyx 1.6.4 on windows vista sp 2.
[...]

Do not reply directly to me, but to the list, please.

What document class you are using?

M.

Re: Tables' numbers lyx-PDF file

[Manveru]

2009/12/23 murdock85 :
>
> Hello everybody
>
> I have a problem with lyx. when i draw a numbered table lyx works and gives
> it a correct number. the same for the next table. But when i view the lyx
> file as PDF file and take a look to the tables' numbers i notice that all
> the tables, of a same chapter, get the same number. I mean that when i write
> in lyx chapter 4-section 3(for istance) and put 2 tables that are numbered
> automatically as "table 6" and "table 7", then when i update the PDF, i
> notice that the 2 tables get the same number like "table 4.2". i cannot
> understand the reason. can anyone help me?? it very important. i am using it
> for my Thesis.

You've sent your message two times.

Please try to save and close your lyx document. Then open it again and
click "View PDF (pdflatex)" to get whole document compiled again. If
your problem is related to number of latex executions, it may help.

Then report if your problem persists, giving us your platform and LyX
version you're using.

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Re: tables numbered chapter-wise

[Niko Schwarz]

aha! turns out that i am the biggest latex-guru of all times.

\usepackage{remreset}

\usepackage{ccaption}

\...@removefromreset{table}{chapter}

\renewcommand{\thetable}{\arabic{table}}


this does the trick!


niko

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Niko Schwarz
wrote:

> i tried it with \usepackage{ccaption}. doesn't change the error message.
> i think i need help.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Niko Schwarz  > wrote:
>
>> the ccaption package says, i should do this:
>>
>> \makeatletter
>>
>> \...@removefromreset{table}{chapter}
>>
>> \renewcommand{\thetable}{\arabic{table}}
>>
>> \makeatother
>>
>>
>> however, when i put it into the preamble, latex complains that
>> Undefined control sequence.
>>
>>   \...@removefromreset
>>
>> {table}{chapter}
>>
>> The control sequence at the end of the top line
>>
>> of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
>>
>> misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
>>
>> spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
>>
>> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>>
>>
>> niko
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Niko Schwarz <
>> niko.schw...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> using ams-book, the tables i use are numbered sequentielly PER CHAPTER.
>>> the result is that i have three tables all called "Table 1". How do I change
>>> that?
>>>
>>> niko
>>>
>>
>>
>

Re: tables numbered chapter-wise

[Niko Schwarz]

i tried it with \usepackage{ccaption}. doesn't change the error message.
i think i need help.

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Niko Schwarz
wrote:

> the ccaption package says, i should do this:
>
> \makeatletter
>
> \...@removefromreset{table}{chapter}
>
> \renewcommand{\thetable}{\arabic{table}}
>
> \makeatother
>
>
> however, when i put it into the preamble, latex complains that
> Undefined control sequence.
>
>   \...@removefromreset
>
> {table}{chapter}
>
> The control sequence at the end of the top line
>
> of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
>
> misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
>
> spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
>
> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>
>
> niko
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Niko Schwarz  > wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> using ams-book, the tables i use are numbered sequentielly PER CHAPTER.
>> the result is that i have three tables all called "Table 1". How do I change
>> that?
>>
>> niko
>>
>
>

Re: tables numbered chapter-wise

[Niko Schwarz]

the ccaption package says, i should do this:

\makeatletter

\...@removefromreset{table}{chapter}

\renewcommand{\thetable}{\arabic{table}}

\makeatother


however, when i put it into the preamble, latex complains that
Undefined control sequence.

 \...@removefromreset

{table}{chapter}

The control sequence at the end of the top line

of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have

misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct

spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,

and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.


niko

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Niko Schwarz
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> using ams-book, the tables i use are numbered sequentielly PER CHAPTER. the
> result is that i have three tables all called "Table 1". How do I change
> that?
>
> niko
>

Re: tables go out of the page

[Uwe Stöhr]

Sindhu Sundar schrieb:


how do i make the tables come within the page margin? please help. thanks :)


Another user already replied. In case you want to have more infos about line breaking in tables or 
about rotating things, have a look at teh EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help menu.


regards Uwe

Re: tables go out of the page

[Yago]

To reduce the font size is another solution
- Original Message - 
From: "James C. Sutherland" 

To: "LyX User" 
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: tables go out of the page




On Feb 13, 2009, at 12:58 AM, Sindhu Sundar wrote:


Hi!

Am doing by final year project, we are required to submit erd  diagrams 
and
stuff. In lyx when I create tables, some of the go out of the 
page...please

see http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/394046/Narration.pdf

how do i make the tables come within the page margin? please help. 
thanks :)


-Sindhu S


Two possible solutions that come to mind:
  1. Set column widths.  This will force line-wrapping in a cell.
  2. Rotate the table to landscape.
I would probably favor option 1 for most of your tables.

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Re: tables go out of the page

[James C. Sutherland]

On Feb 13, 2009, at 12:58 AM, Sindhu Sundar wrote:


Hi!

Am doing by final year project, we are required to submit erd  
diagrams and
stuff. In lyx when I create tables, some of the go out of the  
page...please

see http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/394046/Narration.pdf

how do i make the tables come within the page margin? please help.  
thanks :)


-Sindhu S


Two possible solutions that come to mind:
  1. Set column widths.  This will force line-wrapping in a cell.
  2. Rotate the table to landscape.
I would probably favor option 1 for most of your tables.

Re: Tables - gap in borders

[Helge Hafting]

G. Milde wrote:

On 29.11.07, Graham Griffiths wrote:
  

Graham Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:



  

Thanks for the suggestions - they should do the trick. However, I
would like a clean solution if possible.
  


I'v seen many workarounds in this thread (local like \vphantom) and
global liek \renewcommand\arraystretch... or the dcolumn package.

However, a "clean solution" would IMO imply that the GUI element
  Table Settings > Borders > Additional Space > Top of row
would behave like 
  ... Additional Space > Bottom of row

and not cut the vertical lines.
Maybe it could be implemented with a "phantom" space?
  

Good idea. LyX can be changed to insert a \phantom instead
of the line-utting mechanism now used -  do anybody ever
want the line cutting?

Helge Hafting

Re: Tables - gap in borders

[G. Milde]

On 29.11.07, Graham Griffiths wrote:
> Graham Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > Thanks for the suggestions - they should do the trick. However, I
> > would like a clean solution if possible.

I'v seen many workarounds in this thread (local like \vphantom) and
global liek \renewcommand\arraystretch... or the dcolumn package.

However, a "clean solution" would IMO imply that the GUI element
  Table Settings > Borders > Additional Space > Top of row
would behave like 
  ... Additional Space > Bottom of row
and not cut the vertical lines.
Maybe it could be implemented with a "phantom" space?

GM

Re: Tables - gap in borders

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Nov 29, 2007 3:09 PM, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Graham Griffiths wrote:
> > Graham Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> I need to include math symbols in tables and when a superscript is present
> >> there is not enought clearance between the symbol and the cell top border.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestions - they should do the trick. However, I would 
> > like a
> > clean solution if possible.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Graham
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Not sure if this is pertinent, but I'm struggling to adapt an article to
> the LaTeX style specified by the INFORMS journal Operations Research.
> Their style file adds a couple of macros, \up and \down, to be used in
> table rows that follow respectively precede a horizontal rule.  The
> purpose is to add a bit of vertical space between rules and table
> entries.  The style files can be downloaded from the INFORMS web site
> (www.informs.org, then drill down to the journal submission
> information), if you'd care to see how they do it.
>
> /Paul
>
>


I had this code in the preamble of my thesis.

% Creates extra spacing in the rows of all table cells
\usepackage{dcolumn}
\setlength{\extrarowheight}{2mm}

Although this may not be what you want, you could look at the dcolumn
package documentation and see if there are any other options.

Cheers,
Bob

Re: Tables - gap in borders

[Paul A. Rubin]

Graham Griffiths wrote:

Graham Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

I need to include math symbols in tables and when a superscript is present 
there is not enought clearance between the symbol and the cell top border.


Thanks for the suggestions - they should do the trick. However, I would like a 
clean solution if possible.


Regards,

Graham






Not sure if this is pertinent, but I'm struggling to adapt an article to 
the LaTeX style specified by the INFORMS journal Operations Research. 
Their style file adds a couple of macros, \up and \down, to be used in 
table rows that follow respectively precede a horizontal rule.  The 
purpose is to add a bit of vertical space between rules and table 
entries.  The style files can be downloaded from the INFORMS web site 
(www.informs.org, then drill down to the journal submission 
information), if you'd care to see how they do it.


/Paul

Re: Tables - gap in borders

[Graham Griffiths]

Graham Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Thanks for the suggestions - they should do the trick. However, I would like 
a 
> clean solution if possible.

I have found a good method that increases the vertical spacing of tables and 
arrays. In the preamble ad:

\renewcommand\arraystretch{1.25} % (Value=1.0 is for standard spacing)

This and other Tex table tips can be found at:

http://www.tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=table/table#table3

Regards,

Graham

Re: Tables - gap in borders

[Graham Griffiths]

Graham Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> I need to include math symbols in tables and when a superscript is present 
> there is not enought clearance between the symbol and the cell top border.

Thanks for the suggestions - they should do the trick. However, I would like a 
clean solution if possible.

Regards,

Graham

Re: Tables - gap in borders

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:29:24PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Graham Griffiths wrote:
>> I need to include math symbols in tables and when a superscript is present 
>> there is not enought clearance between the symbol and the cell top border.
>>
>> However, when I add a space to top of a line in a table by setting 
>> additional space between rows to say, custom = 1mm, the space is 
>> introduced but, when rendered as a pdf, there is a corresponding space in 
>> the corresponding vertical border. The space in the border increases and 
>> decreases with the space size. The border space does not occur when a 
>> space is introduced at the bottom of a line.
>>
>> Is it possible to add a clearance space at the top of a cell without 
>> introducing a space in the vertical border?
>>   
> There is the trick of adding something invisible that is a little
> taller than your superscript. Either an empty minipage
> with a specific small size, or a textual construct that
> has white color.

Or a \vphantom that was meant for this purpose...

Andre'

Re: Tables - gap in borders

[Helge Hafting]

Graham Griffiths wrote:
I need to include math symbols in tables and when a superscript is present 
there is not enought clearance between the symbol and the cell top border.


However, when I add a space to top of a line in a table by setting additional 
space between rows to say, custom = 1mm, the space is introduced but, when 
rendered as a pdf, there is a corresponding space in the corresponding 
vertical border. The space in the border increases and decreases with the 
space size. The border space does not occur when a space is introduced at the 
bottom of a line.


Is it possible to add a clearance space at the top of a cell without 
introducing a space in the vertical border?
  

There is the trick of adding something invisible that is a little
taller than your superscript. Either an empty minipage
with a specific small size, or a textual construct that
has white color.

Helge Hafting

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

[Niklas Huldén]

Helge Hafting wrote:

Niklas Huldén wrote:


Thank You for all the suggestions! I think I will stick with the 
oldstyle figures in the tables also for now. If someone complains 
about it (which I seriously doubt), I can return to your suggestions.

Another suggestion:

Put a TeX box immediately in front of each table, containing the command
\newstylenums{
And immediately after the table, a TeX box containing just a single
}


This works for me. All numbers in the entire table becomes new style.
This may be some work for an entire book, but it sure is easier
than using latex commands for each and every little number.

Everything between two such boxes is typeset newstyle, so
if there are several tables and a little text (without numbers),
consider saving work by enclosing the whole group with just
the two boxes.

I have not tested what happens if the tables are inside floats,
maybe you have to use \newstylenums in each float then.

Helge Hafting



Hi!

Yes this works fine with the eco package. But mathpazo does not seem to 
have any \newstylenums or any other command for the same effect.

Thanks again!

Niklas H.

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

[Helge Hafting]

Niklas Huldén wrote:


Thank You for all the suggestions! I think I will stick with the 
oldstyle figures in the tables also for now. If someone complains 
about it (which I seriously doubt), I can return to your suggestions.

Another suggestion:

Put a TeX box immediately in front of each table, containing the command
\newstylenums{
And immediately after the table, a TeX box containing just a single
}


This works for me. All numbers in the entire table becomes new style.
This may be some work for an entire book, but it sure is easier
than using latex commands for each and every little number.

Everything between two such boxes is typeset newstyle, so
if there are several tables and a little text (without numbers),
consider saving work by enclosing the whole group with just
the two boxes.

I have not tested what happens if the tables are inside floats,
maybe you have to use \newstylenums in each float then.

Helge Hafting

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

[Niklas Huldén]

Helge Hafting wrote:

Niklas Huldén wrote:

Hi!

I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled 
\usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole 
document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood 
correctly one should not use oldstylenums except in the main text 
body. Is there any way to exclude these table floats from the generic 
option. I could of course mark every number in every table float as 
"math mode" but that would seem to be a lengthy operation, as would 
indeed be replacing all numbers in the text with ERT. Any suggestions?

Unfortunately, LyX doesn't have options for turning
oldstyle on/off for pieces of text - only for the whole document.
At least if you use version 1.5.
Various solutions:

1. Use ERT everywhere - but too much work.

2. Redefine the latex tabular environment so that it issues the
   "no oldstyle" command in addition to everything else it does.
   Then all tables comes out without oldstyle numbers.
   I don't know if this is feasible though.

Version 1.5 may offer a solution if you're willing to
create a custom layout file. Understanding layout files is
some work, but gives these options:

3. Make a charstyle for "not oldstyle numbers".  You can then mark
   anything and apply this style - the numbers marked will no
   longer be old-style.  Easier than converting to math, because
   you can (probably) mark whole tables instead of hunting for
   each little number. You can also use this charstyle for numbers
   in uppercase headings. (Oldstyle numbers are  lowercase,
   non-oldstyle numbers are uppercase numbers.
   So a number in uppercase text should not be oldstyle.)

4. For older versions of LyX, make a paragraph style (instead of a
   charstyle) for "standard, but not oldstyle numbers".
   Very much like alternative 3, except that it always works on
   whole paragraphs.  But a table is usually in a paragraph
   of its own anyway, so not much of a problem here.
   You can then change the paragraph type for each table.

Helge Hafting



Thank You for all the suggestions! I think I will stick with the 
oldstyle figures in the tables also for now. If someone complains about 
it (which I seriously doubt), I can return to your suggestions.


Many thanks!

Niklas H.

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

[Helge Hafting]

Niklas Huldén wrote:

Hi!

I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled 
\usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole 
document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood 
correctly one should not use oldstylenums except in the main text 
body. Is there any way to exclude these table floats from the generic 
option. I could of course mark every number in every table float as 
"math mode" but that would seem to be a lengthy operation, as would 
indeed be replacing all numbers in the text with ERT. Any suggestions?

Unfortunately, LyX doesn't have options for turning
oldstyle on/off for pieces of text - only for the whole document.
At least if you use version 1.5. 


Various solutions:

1. Use ERT everywhere - but too much work.

2. Redefine the latex tabular environment so that it issues the
   "no oldstyle" command in addition to everything else it does.
   Then all tables comes out without oldstyle numbers.
   I don't know if this is feasible though.

Version 1.5 may offer a solution if you're willing to
create a custom layout file. Understanding layout files is
some work, but gives these options:

3. Make a charstyle for "not oldstyle numbers".  You can then mark
   anything and apply this style - the numbers marked will no
   longer be old-style.  Easier than converting to math, because
   you can (probably) mark whole tables instead of hunting for
   each little number. You can also use this charstyle for numbers
   in uppercase headings. (Oldstyle numbers are  lowercase,
   non-oldstyle numbers are uppercase numbers.
   So a number in uppercase text should not be oldstyle.)

4. For older versions of LyX, make a paragraph style (instead of a
   charstyle) for "standard, but not oldstyle numbers".
   Very much like alternative 3, except that it always works on
   whole paragraphs.  But a table is usually in a paragraph
   of its own anyway, so not much of a problem here.
   You can then change the paragraph type for each table.

Helge Hafting

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

[Niklas Hulden]

William Adams skrev:

On Aug 31, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Niklas Huldén wrote:

I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled 
\usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the whole 
document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've understood 
correctly one should not use oldstylenums except in the main text body.


Why?


Well, I asked myself the same question when looking at older books which 
appear to use "oldstylenums" (called "gemena siffror" in swedish) in 
tables also (and I think they look beautiful). But googling I found some 
 advice to never use theese in tables or graphs. Maybe we have some 
confusion with the fact that you should not use them in mathematical 
writing. There are a lot of strict rools going around in there :)

I continue happily with my script.

Thank you and my best regards!

Niklas




So long as things line up decently (I forget if the oldstyle figures in 
mathpazo are proportional or lining) things should be fine.


Charles Babbage (among others) advocated strongly for the additional 
differentiation which osf provide in tabular material.


William

Re: Tables without oldstylenums

[William Adams]

On Aug 31, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Niklas Huldén wrote:

I have a lengthy (300 p) humanistic manuscript and have enabled  
\usepackage[osf]mathpazo as to get oldstyle figures across the  
whole document. However, I also have 50+ tables and if I've  
understood correctly one should not use oldstylenums except in the  
main text body.


Why?

Is there any way to exclude these table floats from the generic  
option. I could of course mark every number in every table float as  
"math mode" but that would seem to be a lengthy operation, as would  
indeed be replacing all numbers in the text with ERT. Any suggestions?


You should be able to set up a redefinition of the font / encoding so  
that lining figures are used, but again, why?


So long as things line up decently (I forget if the oldstyle figures  
in mathpazo are proportional or lining) things should be fine.


Charles Babbage (among others) advocated strongly for the additional  
differentiation which osf provide in tabular material.


William

--
William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications

Re: Tables and figures going in different directions with 'rotate sideways'

[Uwe Stöhr]

John Pye schrieb:


The problem is that on left pages, the figures are rotated so that the
bottom of the figure (and its caption) is on the left, but on the right
pages, the figures are rotated so that the bottom of the figure is on
the right.

The format I would like would be for all of the figures to be rotated in
the same direction,


To force another rotation direction, you can add either the option "figuresleft" or "figuresright" 
to the document class options.


I added this information now to the EmbeddedObjects manual.

regards Uwe

Re: tables: multirow ok, but multiline?

[Nick Hopton]

In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Stöhr 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote.


[...]
The I can recommend to recompile LyX and test out a more recent LyX 1.5 
version, we made big efforts the last weeks.


There's also a manual version for LyX 1.5:

http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/lib/doc/EmbeddedObjects.lyx

[...]

It might be easier to get the PDF from:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#EmbeddedObjects

Regards,
Nick.
--
Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton
Caversham, Reading, England
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: tables: multirow ok, but multiline?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Thomas Kuther schrieb:


I'm using 1.5 alpha1, unicode is a must.


The I can recommend to recompile LyX and test out a more recent LyX 1.5 version, we made big efforts 
the last weeks.


There's also a manual version for LyX 1.5:

http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/lib/doc/EmbeddedObjects.lyx

It describes the new LyX 1.5 features: formal tables, table row spacing, framed 
and shaded notes.

regards Uwe

Re: tables: multirow ok, but multiline?

[Thomas Kuther]

On Mi, 31.01.07 01:08 Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thomas Kuther schrieb:
> 
> > I'm just fiddling together a table and after reading the docs and
> > googling for some time I really wonder if and how it is possible to
> > join two lines in one row
> 
> LyX's table stuff is in detailed explained in this file (which will
> be part of the next LyX release):
> 
> http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X/lib/doc/EmbeddedObjects.lyx
> 
> regards Uwe

Very nice, thanks! That's what I was looking for and didn't find in the
manuals here. I'm using 1.5 alpha1, unicode is a must.

Regards,
Tom


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Re: tables: multirow ok, but multiline?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Thomas Kuther schrieb:


I'm just fiddling together a table and after reading the docs and
googling for some time I really wonder if and how it is possible to
join two lines in one row


LyX's table stuff is in detailed explained in this file (which will be part of 
the next LyX release):

http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X/lib/doc/EmbeddedObjects.lyx

regards Uwe

Re: tables: multirow ok, but multiline?

[Thomas Kuther]

On Di, 30.01.07 17:13 "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thomas Kuther wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I'm just fiddling together a table and after reading the docs and
> > googling for some time I really wonder if and how it is possible to
> > join two lines in one row, like shown here:
> > 
> > http://gimpel.ath.cx/~tom/table.png
> > 
> > If that is possible, could someone please point me into the right
> > direction?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Thomas
> 
> If you just want to put horizontal lines in a table and have a line
> not extend all the way across the table, the trick is to insert the
> line, then go to the table pop-up dialog, change the cells where you
> do not want the line to "multicolumn" (but leave them one column
> each) and toggle off the part of the border you do not want.
> 
> If, however, you want to merge a vertical stack of cells and have the 
> text centered vertically in the merged cells (or wrapping
> vertically), you need to use the LaTeX multirow package.  Assuming
> you've installed it, put \usepackage{multirow} in the document
> preamble, fiddle the horizontal lines (if any) as above, and in the
> first cell of the merged stack insert \multirow... in ERT (where the
> ellipsis signifies assorted options too numerous to discuss here --
> see the README file that comes with multirow for details).
> 
> A small example is attached.
> 
> /Paul

Ahaaa, \multirow!
Thanks very much for the enlightenment, Paul. 
That really helped a lot!

Regards,
Tom


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Re: tables: multirow ok, but multiline?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Thomas Kuther wrote:

Hi there,

I'm just fiddling together a table and after reading the docs and
googling for some time I really wonder if and how it is possible to
join two lines in one row, like shown here:

http://gimpel.ath.cx/~tom/table.png

If that is possible, could someone please point me into the right
direction?

Thanks!
Thomas


If you just want to put horizontal lines in a table and have a line not 
extend all the way across the table, the trick is to insert the line, 
then go to the table pop-up dialog, change the cells where you do not 
want the line to "multicolumn" (but leave them one column each) and 
toggle off the part of the border you do not want.


If, however, you want to merge a vertical stack of cells and have the 
text centered vertically in the merged cells (or wrapping vertically), 
you need to use the LaTeX multirow package.  Assuming you've installed 
it, put \usepackage{multirow} in the document preamble, fiddle the 
horizontal lines (if any) as above, and in the first cell of the merged 
stack insert \multirow... in ERT (where the ellipsis signifies assorted 
options too numerous to discuss here -- see the README file that comes 
with multirow for details).


A small example is attached.

/Paul


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Re: Tables inside an enumerate environment

[Hillel]

Thanks Uwe

I did try to play with the "content alignment" setting, but it didn't solve
all my problems. The remaining problem is that even when the "content
alignment" is set to middle, the top of the box is aligned with the *bottom*
of the text line. What I need is to get the top of the box aligned with the
*top* of the text line.

Is there a way I can get that effect?

On 12/16/06, Uwe Stöhr  wrote:



Set the box content alignment to "middle".
Attached an example.
I'll add this hint to the documentation.

regards Uwe

Re: Tables inside an enumerate environment

[Uwe Stöhr]

Hillel schrieb:


I tried your suggestion and read the docs, but for some reason I can't get
it right.

I created a simple lyx file, with a few words of text followed by a box 
that

holds a table with multiple rows. When I set the box vertical alignment to
"bottom", the box is correctly aligned. However, when I set the box 
vertical

alignment to "middle" or "top" there is no difference in the output.


Set the box content alignment to "middle".
Attached an example.
I'll add this hint to the documentation.

regards Uwe


newfile1.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Tables inside an enumerate environment

[Hillel]

I tried your suggestion and read the docs, but for some reason I can't get
it right.

I created a simple lyx file, with a few words of text followed by a box that
holds a table with multiple rows. When I set the box vertical alignment to
"bottom", the box is correctly aligned. However, when I set the box vertical
alignment to "middle" or "top" there is no difference in the output. In both
cases the preceding line of text if aligned to the middle of the table.
Another interesting thing is that when in addition to "Box Vertical - Top",
I also set "Content Vertical - middle" (instead of the default "Content
Vertical - Top"), The box top suddenly does align with the text line,
although its still bad since its the box top is aligned with the text line
*bottom* part.

My goal is to get the top of the text line aligned to the top of the box. Is
this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

--
Lyx Version 1.4.3
Latex 2003/12/01
Hillel

On 12/13/06, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hillel schrieb:

> I am new to LyX and I'm trying to use tables inside an enumerate
> environment. My problem is that with respect to vertical alignment, the
> number (of the current enumerate item) is aligned to the vertical center
of
> the table, while I want it aligned to its top.

Put the table inside into a minipage and set the alignment "top" or
bottom" for the minipage box.
(See chapter 5.2 and 5.4 of the Extended-Insets manual:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Extended-Insets )

regards Uwe

Re: Tables inside an enumerate environment

[Uwe Stöhr]

Hillel schrieb:


I am new to LyX and I'm trying to use tables inside an enumerate
environment. My problem is that with respect to vertical alignment, the
number (of the current enumerate item) is aligned to the vertical center of
the table, while I want it aligned to its top.


Put the table inside into a minipage and set the alignment "top" or bottom" for 
the minipage box.
(See chapter 5.2 and 5.4 of the Extended-Insets manual:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/DocumentationDevelopment#Extended-Insets )

regards Uwe

Re: Tables appear at the end of the document

[Paul A. Rubin]

Tina Le wrote:

Hilo,
After pressing Command D I get a latex file that has the data tables at the
end of the document, after the Discussion section, instead of in the Results
section where I put in the LyX file. I'm not sure if this is a problem with
LaTEX or with LyX. And I hope there's a way to fix this.

Thank you!
Smilie,
Tina



Are the tables directly in the text, or are they in table floats?  If 
table floats, what option did you pick for placement (right click on 
float, select what)?


/Paul

Re: Tables

[Uwe Stöhr]

Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández wrote:


Hi to all. ¿How I can make something like the attached file with
LyX/Latex?. Thanks in advance.


Altough there is nothing attached, have a look at

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables

for some examples.

regards Uwe

Re: Tables

[Paul Smith]

On 1/29/06, Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi to all. ¿How I can make something like the attached file with
> LyX/Latex?. Thanks in advance.

There is nothing attached!

Paul

Re: Tables

[Myriam Abramson]

Thanks to everyone who answered. 

Ah, yes, I missed the meaning of this multicolumn check. And yes, I do
have TableExamples.lyx but didn't know about it. 

Who needs intuitive when you can ask questions to a user's group? 

-- 
   myriam

Re: Tables

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote:


Note that you can declare a single cell to be "multicolumn" if you want it
to have unique borders.


  Also, if you want the column to have entries left justified, but the column
header to be centered, you need to declare that column header cell
'multicolumn.' Then you can center the header and leave the rest left
aligned. No, that's not intuitive. :-)

Rich

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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)   |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic"
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Re: Tables

[Paul A. Rubin]

Myriam Abramson wrote:

Is there a way to control the borders of a cell as opposed to a row or
column? I have Lyx 1.3.5. 


Basically, I would like the headers of some of my columns to take
several columns. 


TIA,


Highlight the header cells, right click and in the Table Settings tab of 
the pop-up dialog put a check next to "Multicolumn".  You can adjust the 
borders as well.  Borders of multicolumn cells are handled separately 
from the row/column borders.  Note that you can declare a single cell to 
be "multicolumn" if you want it to have unique borders.


Paul

Re: Tables

[Roy Schestowitz]

_/ On Wed 09 Nov 2005 13:49:06 GMT, [Myriam Abramson] wrote : \_



Is there a way to control the borders of a cell as opposed to a row or
column? I have Lyx 1.3.5.

Basically, I would like the headers of some of my columns to take
several columns.

TIA,


I assume you are referring to cell merging.

Have a look at the example file called TableExamples.lyx. It shows you how
to  handle  more complex tables structures and gives you plenty to  poten-
tially re-use.

Since I have a slightly out-of-date version of LyX on this computer, I de-
cided  to attach the file (which may no longer exist in v.1.3.6). The file
is not overly big, but many apologies to list subscribers in advance...

Hope it helps,

Roy

--
Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com

Re: tables with split cells: formatting tables for joint distribution

[Charles de Miramon]

David Soukal wrote:


> 
> Thank you! The example you gave didn't work but I'll have a look at
> PSTricks closely.
> 
Beware that pstricks don't show in the DVI only in the PS

> I've read here, on this list, that PSTricks doesn't work with pdfLaTeX,
> right?
> 

You can also use the slashbox package which does what you want. Look at the
annexed file.

Cheers,
Charles

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slash.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: tables with split cells: formatting tables for joint distribution

[David Soukal]

I would try it with pstricks (\usepackage{pstricks}), a tool which can does
everything !
You will have to create the contnet of the cell "by hand"
Zum Beispiel :
 \pspicture(0,0)(2,2)
\psline(0,2)(2,0)
\rput(1.,1.5){$Y$}
\rput(0.5,0.5){$X$}
\endpspicture
Of course, this is not "as simple as ExcelTM" but the real power of TeX is here
!
Phil



Thank you! The example you gave didn't work but I'll have a look at 
PSTricks closely.


I've read here, on this list, that PSTricks doesn't work with pdfLaTeX, 
right?


Thanks!

David

Re: Tables too wide

[Paul A. Rubin]

Jean-Claude Christnach wrote:

Hello,

How can I scale tables?
I imported a table from Excel (with help of a macro which exports TEX
code) as ERT. Now the table is to wide to fit in th columns of the
document, which looks ugly.
Is there a way to prevent this, e.g. making fonts a little smaller for
the table to fit on the page?

Thanks for any advice, it's my resume, have to deliver it on
wednesday.

greetings
jay


Highlight the entire table, then click Layout | Character and change 
Size to small, smaller, smallest or tiny for progressively greater 
reductions in font size.


-- Paul

Re: Tables too wide

[Rob S]

I imported a table from Excel (with help of a macro which exports TEX
code) as ERT. Now the table is to wide to fit in th columns of the
document, which looks ugly.


You can set column widths within Lyx.


Is there a way to prevent this, e.g. making fonts a little smaller for
the table to fit on the page?



I'm not sure if this is the best solution but I have used:

This is all in a table float;

Table title

\scriptsize (in a TEX box)

Table here

\normalsize (in a TEX box)


Rob S
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Hydraulic Research Group
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Southampton
UK

Re: Tables - general question

[Herbert Voss]

Vaclav Smidl wrote:
I had the impression that \minipage is an improved (robust) \parbox...
The footnotes are example of a difference (improvement)
The latex help says:
  A \parbox command is used for a parbox containing a small piece of text,
  with nothing fancy inside. In particular, you shouldn't use any of the
  paragraph-making environments inside a \parbox argument. For larger pieces
  of text, including ones containing a paragraph-making environment, you
  should use a minipage environment. 

So, I understand that it is better to use minipage but from my practical 
observation: it works even without it... 
the main difference is that the minipage is an environment and
the parbox not. This has some conclusions, e.g. using of \verb
Herbert

Re: Tables - general question

[Angus Leeming]

Herbert Voss wrote:
> oh sorry, cut'n paste ... :-(
> Should be

[ snip...]
Got it.

> this is the style, where you do not need the additional \vspace
> at the end.
> 
> the bug is another one:
> when I insert Format->Paragraph->Space-After->User defined a
> length like \normalbaselineskip and then ok, LyX makes
> this to \vspace{0}! This is doubled wrong. At first it short
> be \vspace{0pt} or with any other unit and second why is a
> a length with a name not accepted?

Ok, I see this too. I guess that the probalem is here, in
setVSpaceFromWidgets in QParagraph.C:

case 6:
string s;
string const length = trim(value);
if (isValidGlueLength(length)) {
s = length;
} else if (!length.empty()){
string u = trim(unit);
u = subst(u, "%%", "%");
s = length + u;
}
space = VSpace(LyXGlueLength(s));
break;
}

Apparently isValidGlueLength isn't clever enough to understand your length.
Thereafter, the fall back creates an unholy combination of 
"\normalbaselineskip" + "sp"
so that the VSpace constructor has no hope in hell of doing anything with
it.

However, I think that the fundamental problem is that the parser that is
used to translate your string into a LyXGlueLength isn't powerful enough
to cope with your LaTeX skills.

Could you file a bug report on bugsilla please?

-- 
Angus

Re: Tables - general question

[Herbert Voss]

Angus Leeming wrote:
Hmmm. Your file doesn't compile, Herbert. Let's fix that first. 

I find that changing "\newenvironment{LyXitemize}{%", above to
"\newenvironment{LyXitemize*}{%" makes latex happy. Is that what you mean?
oh sorry, cut'n paste ... :-(
Should be
Style Itemize*
  CopyStyle Itemize
  LatexName LyXitemize
  Preamble
\usepackage{mdwlist}
\newenvironment{LyXitemize}{%
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  \begin{itemize*}%
}{\vspace{-\normalbaselineskip}%
  \end{itemize*}}
  EndPreamble
End
this is the style, where you do not need the additional \vspace
at the end.
the bug is another one:
when I insert Format->Paragraph->Space-After->User defined a
length like \normalbaselineskip and then ok, LyX makes
this to \vspace{0}! This is doubled wrong. At first it short
be \vspace{0pt} or with any other unit and second why is a
a length with a name not accepted?
Herbert

Re: Tables - general question

[Angus Leeming]

Herbert Voss wrote:

> Angus Leeming wrote:
> 
>> Tune the appearence on the lyx screen to suit. If you don't care about
>> that, then you may even be able to whittle it down to:
>> 
>> Try adding an "Itemize*" environment to layouts/stdlists.inc. Eg
>> (untested):
>> 
>> # Itemize style definition
>> Style Itemize*
>>   CopyStyle Itemize
>LatexName   LyXitemize*
>Preamble
>  \usepackage{mdwlist}
>  \newenvironment{LyXitemize}{%
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>\begin{itemize*}%
>  }{\end{itemize*}}
>EndPreamble
> End
> 
> 
> There seems to be a bug in LyX that i cannot insert a
> unser defined length after a paragraph like
> -\normalbaselineskip. It is set to 0, which is wrong
> as value and wrong in a way that my input isn't used.
> 
> LyX 1.3.4 qt
> 
> So there is a need for ERT ... very bad!
> See example, works only with the above layout.

Hmmm. Your file doesn't compile, Herbert. Let's fix that first. 

I find that changing "\newenvironment{LyXitemize}{%", above to
"\newenvironment{LyXitemize*}{%" makes latex happy. Is that what you mean?

Angus

\documentclass[10pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{4}
\usepackage{array}

\makeatletter

\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}

 \usepackage{mdwlist}
   \newenvironment{LyXitemize*}{%
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 \begin{itemize*}%
   }{\end{itemize*}}

\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|p{3cm}|p{4cm}|}
\hline
\begin{LyXitemize*}
\item one
\item two
\item three
\end{LyXitemize*}
&
\begin{LyXitemize*}
\item four and six
\item seven and eight
\item nine and teen
\end{LyXitemize*}
\tabularnewline
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Re: Tables - general question

[Vaclav Smidl]

On Wednesday 21 July 2004 12:31, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Vaclav Smidl wrote:
>
> > My point was that if you specify the width of a column in a table, you
> > can insert the same stuff as in parbox.
>
> the behaviour of footnotes is different and the vertival space
> for the first line also.
>
> > I agree, that you can do much more in the minipage...
>
> what?
>

I had the impression that \minipage is an improved (robust) \parbox...
The footnotes are example of a difference (improvement)

The latex help says:
  A \parbox command is used for a parbox containing a small piece of text,
  with nothing fancy inside. In particular, you shouldn't use any of the
  paragraph-making environments inside a \parbox argument. For larger pieces
  of text, including ones containing a paragraph-making environment, you
  should use a minipage environment. 

So, I understand that it is better to use minipage but from my practical 
observation: it works even without it... 

Re: Tables - general question

[Herbert Voss]

Vaclav Smidl wrote:
When you fix the column width, each cell is set as a \parbox, so there is
no need to use minipage. (see attachment) However, the resulting .ps is
slightly different (extra vspace at the end of the second cell)...
I don't see any \parbox in the latex export of the example, but
\begin{tabular}{|m{5cm}|m{5cm}|c|c|c|}
So this is *not* a way to create a \parbox without ERT.

Sorry, I did not mean this is a way to create parbox, it is created by the 
tabular enviroment. Namely, m{wd} is just vertically centered p{wd} which:
" p{wd} - Produces a column which can be multiple lines, with each item
 typeset in a parbox of width wd."
p{wd} ist the same as \parbox[t]{wd}...
m{wd} ... \parbox[c]{wd}...
b{wd} ... \parbox[b]{wd}...

My point was that if you specify the width of a column in a table, you can 
insert the same stuff as in parbox.
the behaviour of footnotes is different and the vertival space
for the first line also.
I agree, that you can do much more in the minipage...
what?
Herbert

Re: Tables - general question

[Herbert Voss]

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
To conclude, it's not necessary to insert a minipage, unless you plan
to format things in a way only allowed by minipage environment.
you _always_ need a minipage, when you insert a list environment
like description, itemite a.s.o. With a parbox you'll get an
additional vertical space ...
Herbert

RE: Tables - general question

[Rob S]

> >>
> >>
> >> Onto aesthetics now!
> 
> Try adding an "Itemize*" environment to layouts/stdlists.inc. Eg
> (untested):
> 
> # Itemize style definition
> Style Itemize*
>   MarginStatic
>   LatexType Item_Environment
>   LatexName itemize*
>   NextNoIndent  1
>   LeftMarginMMN
>   LabelSep  xx
>   ItemSep   0.2
>   TopSep0.7
>   BottomSep 0.7
>   ParSep0.3
>   Align Block
>   AlignPossible Block, Left
>   LabelType Static
>   LabelString   *
> End

This works fine! 

Just needs:

\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{mdwlist}

added to my preamble

Thanks Angus


Rob S

Re: Tables - general question

[Vaclav Smidl]

> >>When you fix the column width, each cell is set as a \parbox, so there is
> >> no need to use minipage. (see attachment) However, the resulting .ps is
> >> slightly different (extra vspace at the end of the second cell)...
>
> I don't see any \parbox in the latex export of the example, but
> \begin{tabular}{|m{5cm}|m{5cm}|c|c|c|}
> So this is *not* a way to create a \parbox without ERT.

Sorry, I did not mean this is a way to create parbox, it is created by the 
tabular enviroment. Namely, m{wd} is just vertically centered p{wd} which:
" p{wd} - Produces a column which can be multiple lines, with each item
 typeset in a parbox of width wd."
from: http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~mimi/tex/latex/ltx-68.html

My point was that if you specify the width of a column in a table, you can 
insert the same stuff as in parbox.

>
> In fact I began by patching a minipage by itself,
> and the widthcontrol problem drove me to add a table columnwidth.
>
> To conclude, it's not necessary to insert a minipage, unless you plan
> to format things in a way only allowed by minipage environment.

I agree, that you can do much more in the minipage...

V.

Re: Tables - general question

[Herbert Voss]

Angus Leeming wrote:
Tune the appearence on the lyx screen to suit. If you don't care about
that, then you may even be able to whittle it down to:
Try adding an "Itemize*" environment to layouts/stdlists.inc. Eg
(untested):
# Itemize style definition
Style Itemize*
  CopyStyle Itemize
  LatexName   LyXitemize*
  Preamble
\usepackage{mdwlist}
\newenvironment{LyXitemize}{%
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  \begin{itemize*}%
}{\end{itemize*}}
  EndPreamble
End
There seems to be a bug in LyX that i cannot insert a
unser defined length after a paragraph like
-\normalbaselineskip. It is set to 0, which is wrong
as value and wrong in a way that my input isn't used.
LyX 1.3.4 qt
So there is a need for ERT ... very bad!
See example, works only with the above layout.
Herbert
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass article
\begin_preamble

\end_preamble
\language ngerman
\inputencoding latin1
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing single 
\papersize Default
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 17cm
\paperheight 22cm
\leftmargin 1.2cm
\topmargin 1.4cm
\rightmargin 1.7cm
\bottommargin 1.4cm
\headsep 1cm
\secnumdepth 4
\tocdepth 4
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language german
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle default

\layout Standard


\begin_inset  Tabular






\begin_inset Text

\layout Itemize*

one
\layout Itemize*

two
\layout Itemize*

three
\end_inset 


\begin_inset Text

\layout Itemize*

four and six
\layout Itemize*

seven and eight
\layout Itemize*

nine and teen
\end_inset 




\end_inset 


\the_end

RE: Tables - general question

[Angus Leeming]

Rob S wrote:

>> 
>> 
>> Onto aesthetics now!
>> 
> 
> I've just delved into Herbert V's tips n tricks page on tables:
> 
> http://www.texnik.de/table/Examples/examples.phtml#center
> 
> Two examples here show the itemize environment in a table.
> 
> Q. How can I change from Lyx creating \begin{itemize} to
> \begin{itemize*}?
> 
> The later it seems, from Herbet's page anyway, produces a "tighter"
> output -
> 
> (Please forgive my zero LaTeX knowledge!!)

Try adding an "Itemize*" environment to layouts/stdlists.inc. Eg
(untested):

# Itemize style definition
Style Itemize*
  MarginStatic
  LatexType Item_Environment
  LatexName itemize*
  NextNoIndent  1
  LeftMarginMMN
  LabelSep  xx
  ItemSep   0.2
  TopSep0.7
  BottomSep 0.7
  ParSep0.3
  Align Block
  AlignPossible Block, Left
  LabelType Static
  LabelString   *
End

Tune the appearence on the lyx screen to suit. If you don't care about
that, then you may even be able to whittle it down to:

Style Itemize*
  CopyStyle Itemize
  MarginStatic
  LatexName itemize*
  LabelType Static
End

Experiment!

-- 
Angus

Re: Tables - general question

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

>>From: Vaclav Smidl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: Tables - general question
>>Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:48:31 +
>>
>>>
>>> >>> I do not know. Possibly you can use a minipage for that.
>>> >>
>>> >>Again, I'll have a look at this method as well.
>>>
>>> It works, see attached example.
>>> You need to set the column width if you want the minipage width be
>>> a % of the column, and to get a proper LyX layout: compare col 1 and 2.
>>
>>When you fix the column width, each cell is set as a \parbox, so there is no 
>>need to use minipage. (see attachment) However, the resulting .ps is slightly 
>>different (extra vspace at the end of the second cell)...

I don't see any \parbox in the latex export of the example, but
\begin{tabular}{|m{5cm}|m{5cm}|c|c|c|}
So this is *not* a way to create a \parbox without ERT.

In fact I began by patching a minipage by itself,
and the widthcontrol problem drove me to add a table columnwidth.

To conclude, it's not necessary to insert a minipage, unless you plan
to format things in a way only allowed by minipage environment.

-- 
Jean-Pierre

RE: Tables - general question

[Rob S]

> 
> 
> Onto aesthetics now!
> 

I've just delved into Herbert V's tips n tricks page on tables:

http://www.texnik.de/table/Examples/examples.phtml#center

Two examples here show the itemize environment in a table.

Q. How can I change from Lyx creating \begin{itemize} to
\begin{itemize*}?

The later it seems, from Herbet's page anyway, produces a "tighter"
output -  

(Please forgive my zero LaTeX knowledge!!)

Rob S

RE: Tables - general question

[Rob S]

> When you fix the column width, each cell is set as a \parbox, so there
is
> no
> need to use minipage. (see attachment) However, the resulting .ps is
> slightly
> different (extra vspace at the end of the second cell)...


Onto aesthetics now!

In the example, row 1 height is determined by the contents of R1 C2.

In the viewers/printed page R1C1 "looks" far nicer, better use of cell
padding. 
I can get the same using effect using [\vspace{0.3cm}] in R1C2 as per
attached.

Is this the only way? 

Rob S



test_mini.lyx
Description: Binary data

Re: Tables - general question

[Angus Leeming]

Vaclav Smidl wrote:
>> >>> I do not know. Possibly you can use a minipage for that.
>> >>
>> >>Again, I'll have a look at this method as well.
>>
>> It works, see attached example.
>> You need to set the column width if you want the minipage width be
>> a % of the column, and to get a proper LyX layout: compare col 1 and 2.
> 
> When you fix the column width, each cell is set as a \parbox, so there is
> no need to use minipage. (see attachment) However, the resulting .ps is
> slightly different (extra vspace at the end of the second cell)...

but you can always open up the paragraph dialog from inside this cell and
insert a vertical spacer after the paragraph of -2ex...

Just tested and it works perfectly.

-- 
Angus

Re: Tables - general question

[Vaclav Smidl]

>
> >>> I do not know. Possibly you can use a minipage for that.
> >>
> >>Again, I'll have a look at this method as well.
>
> It works, see attached example.
> You need to set the column width if you want the minipage width be
> a % of the column, and to get a proper LyX layout: compare col 1 and 2.

When you fix the column width, each cell is set as a \parbox, so there is no 
need to use minipage. (see attachment) However, the resulting .ps is slightly 
different (extra vspace at the end of the second cell)...

Vasek


test_mini.lyx
Description: application/lyx

RE: Tables - general question

[Rob S]

Jean-Pierre;

> 
> It works, see attached example.
> You need to set the column width if you want the minipage width be
> a % of the column, and to get a proper LyX layout: compare col 1 and
2.

I think that is exactly what we need! Thanks for your time :-)

> 
> --
> Jean-Pierre

Rob S

RE: Tables - general question

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

>>From: "Rob S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: RE: Tables - general question
>>Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:00:18 +0100

[..]

>>> 
>>> I do not know. Possibly you can use a minipage for that.
>>
>>Again, I'll have a look at this method as well.

It works, see attached example.
You need to set the column width if you want the minipage width be
a % of the column, and to get a proper LyX layout: compare col 1 and 2.

-- 
Jean-Pierre


test_mini.lyx
Description: test_mini.lyx

RE: Tables - general question

[Rob S]

> 
> > Text alignment within the table causes her the most problems
(differing
> > amounts of cell padding).
> 
> This is the standard TeX way, adapt the column width to the content.
> Using the right-click table context menu, you can give the columns a
> fixed width (Where fixed can also mean a certain procentage of text or
> page width). This also allows line-breaking within a table cell.
> 
> Once a satisfying table is set up, it can be saved as a template (in a
> simple LyX file to be used via Insert>File>LyX).

Ok, I'll have a look at that option - setting columns as percentage of
page width may be what we are looking for.

> 
> > Also, is it possible to use bullet lists inside a table cell?
> 
> I do not know. Possibly you can use a minipage for that.

Again, I'll have a look at this method as well.

> Günter

Cheers 

Rob S

Re: Tables - general question

[G. Milde]

On 20.07.04, Rob S wrote:

> Text alignment within the table causes her the most problems (differing
> amounts of cell padding).

This is the standard TeX way, adapt the column width to the content.
Using the right-click table context menu, you can give the columns a
fixed width (Where fixed can also mean a certain procentage of text or
page width). This also allows line-breaking within a table cell.

Once a satisfying table is set up, it can be saved as a template (in a
simple LyX file to be used via Insert>File>LyX).

> Also, is it possible to use bullet lists inside a table cell?

I do not know. Possibly you can use a minipage for that.

Günter

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Re: tables in enumerate

[Herbert Voss]

Robert Neumann wrote:
Hi,
I have a table in an enumerated list. Now the number of the list is allways in 
the middle, like this:
 
 II
 II
3.  II 
 II
 I___ I

Is there a possibility to have it like this:
_
3. I I
I I
I I
II
use from the tabular menu alignment "Top"

Herbert

RE: tables of equations

[Jeremy Daily]

Fantastic Herbert!!
It works like a charm.

Jeremy Daily
Graduate Student

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herbert Voss
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 1:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: tables of equations

Jeremy Daily wrote:

> using lyx 1.3.3-win32. I haven't tried it on the linux machine yet. When
> I looked at the lyx file, there was no indication of a size change in
> the math formulas. I've attached a small test file that I tried.

give the columns a fixed width then you can have
displayed formulas as usual.

Herbert

Re: tables of equations

[Herbert Voss]

Jeremy Daily wrote:

using lyx 1.3.3-win32. I haven't tried it on the linux machine yet. When
I looked at the lyx file, there was no indication of a size change in
the math formulas. I've attached a small test file that I tried.
give the columns a fixed width then you can have
displayed formulas as usual.
Herbert

RE: tables of equations

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

>>From: "Jeremy Daily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: "'Günter Milde'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: RE: tables of equations
>>Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:59:21 -0500
>
>>Günter,
>>
>>I did try that, but nothing happened. I saw it in the manual but I
>>couldn't get it to work on my stuff. I tried  M-x math-size displaystyle
>>then typing and typing then implementing M-x math-size displaystyle. I'm
>>using lyx 1.3.3-win32. I haven't tried it on the linux machine yet. When
>>I looked at the lyx file, there was no indication of a size change in
>>the math formulas. I've attached a small test file that I tried.

I typed in M-m d for each equation in the table, but it's not enough.
Inserting in a parbox semms to work.
Is this what you need (I'm afraid I missed the beginning of the thread).

-- 
Jean-Pierre


longequations.lyx
Description: longequations.lyx

RE: tables of equations

[Jeremy Daily]

Günter,

I did try that, but nothing happened. I saw it in the manual but I
couldn't get it to work on my stuff. I tried  M-x math-size displaystyle
then typing and typing then implementing M-x math-size displaystyle. I'm
using lyx 1.3.3-win32. I haven't tried it on the linux machine yet. When
I looked at the lyx file, there was no indication of a size change in
the math formulas. I've attached a small test file that I tried.

Thanks for your time,
Jeremy

-Original Message-
From: Günter Milde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: tables of equations

Jeremy Daily wrote:
> ...
> My problem is
> I would like to use displayed math in the table because if its size
and
> consistency with the other parts of the document where there is no
> distinction between English and Metric.  Is there a way to use
displayed
> math in a longtable?

Did you try to change the size with "M-x math-size displaystyle"?
See also the Manual Chapter 5.7.3 for info

Günter


-- 
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longequations.lyx
Description: Binary data

Re: tables of equations

[Günter Milde]

Jeremy Daily wrote:
> ...
> My problem is
> I would like to use displayed math in the table because if its size and
> consistency with the other parts of the document where there is no
> distinction between English and Metric.  Is there a way to use displayed
> math in a longtable?

Did you try to change the size with "M-x math-size displaystyle"?
See also the Manual Chapter 5.7.3 for info

Günter


-- 
G.Milde at web.de

Re: Tables with columns with the same width

[Paul Smith]

I would like to know how to set the columns having the same width. 
Could somebody here please help me?


You can do this by setting the width of each column to be a percentage 
of the entire table width. So if you had 4 columns, then you can set 
each column's width to 25%..  To do this - with the cursor somewhere in 
a column, right click on the the column and in the box that pops up, put 
in 25 in the width box and select "col%" from the drop down menu to the 
right (I think it's col% that you want but you can play around with the 
other % options too to see what works best).. repeat for each column... 
not sure if there's a way to do this for all columns at one go - 
selecting all columns and doing the above doesn't seem to work...
Thanks a lot for the helpful replies of Nirmal and of Kenward!

Paul

Re: Tables with columns with the same width

[Nirmal Govind]

I would like to know how to set the columns having the same width. Could 
somebody here please help me?
You can do this by setting the width of each column to be a percentage 
of the entire table width. So if you had 4 columns, then you can set 
each column's width to 25%..  To do this - with the cursor somewhere in 
a column, right click on the the column and in the box that pops up, put 
in 25 in the width box and select "col%" from the drop down menu to the 
right (I think it's col% that you want but you can play around with the 
other % options too to see what works best).. repeat for each column... 
not sure if there's a way to do this for all columns at one go - 
selecting all columns and doing the above doesn't seem to work...

nirmal

Re: Tables with columns with the same width

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:09:48PM +, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I would like to know how to set the columns having the same width.
> Could somebody here please help me?

Column widths are set by using the right mouse button over any one you
wish to fix. A dialog will appear, with the width option near the
bottom. Be sure you hit the enter key after entering the number, so the
change takes place...

I don't know how to do it to all columns at once.  Sorry.  :(


Kenward
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because passing civilization along from one generation to the next 
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could have. - Lee Iacocca

Re: Tables with linuxdoc_article.lyx

[Jose' Matos]

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:34, Enno Oosterhuis wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I am a new lyx user, I use lyx version 1.3.3 on Suse 8.2. I installed a new
> lyx version because of my problem.
>
> My problem is:
>
> How do I use a table in a document in the linuxdoc_article.lyx style. A
> table shows correctly in lyx, but if I try to print it it comes out like:

  Tables are not supported in linuxdoc for 1.3.x
  That support is in 1.4.cvs but that version is not (yet) stable.

> Enno Oosterhuis

-- 
José Abílio

LyX and docbook, a perfect match. :-)

Re: Tables

[Kent Kostuk]

When cutting and pasting from gnumeric, I would create a table in LyX 
that was the exact dimensions (i.e. same number of rows and columns) of 
what I was trying to paste and didn't seem to have any troubles.  I do 
remember that it took some patience to get a feel for how to do this, 
but I think it only took a couple of iterations.

Kent

Toby Allen wrote:

Im finding the Lyx tables to be extreamely annoying, I
cant get them to do what I want to do and it keeps
inserting weird formatting etc.
I tried to use gnumeric and cut and paste, but that
didnt work properly, most oftern only one line of
cells would be filled. Also tried xl2latex but the
version I can find proudly proclaims that it now works
with excel 97 so a newer version is preferable.
Do people have other suggestions? ATM Im seriously
thinking that word does a better job with the tables,
Im considering exporting them from word as images or
something just so I can get the tables that I want.
=
<-: TOBY ALLEN :->
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not 
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. 
-- Albert Einstein"

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Lyx 1.3 activates latex2html bug re tables

[David Green]

Hi,

LyX seems to (now?) use /tabularnewline in tables and uses a

\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}

to provide a way to map out \tabularnewline for HTML processors.

It appears that latex2html has a bug that if you have the form:

\section*{Text1}
...
\section*{Text2}
...
# table with embedded \tabularnewline

things don't work. (It works after one \section* but two or more). It
appears that it is a bug in latex2html but it is one that did not
exist at 1.2.* (I was trying to make small mods to a file I had last
used with 1.2.* -- I don't have a "convenient" way to retreat to 1.2.*
to verify this statement.)

I have verified this "bug" against both a Mandrake 8.2 latex2html and
one found on the web labeled "2002-2-1 (1.70)" at CTAN.  The link to
latex2html on the lyx.org site does not come up for me.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Dave
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UAB Electrical and Computer Engineering
Birmingham, AL USA

Re: tables with multiline cells

[Dekel Tsur]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:59:11PM +0100, Jeroen Vriesman wrote:
> Yet another thing I cannot do.
> 
> I have a table with some text in every cell.
> When I try to insert->special character->linebreak, it doesn't work in my table.
> How do I put a multiline text in a table cell?

There are several ways, and the one you should use depends on what you need
to do exactly.

1) Select a width to the column, and then you can use ctrl+enter (line
break) in that column.

2) Like (1), but select a width only to a single cell in the column, by
clicking the "multi column" button for that cell and then setting the width.

3) Write the text in two more more consecutive vertical cells.
You can disable the lines between the cells by making the cells multi-column,
and then disable the lines you don't need.

Re: Tables violate margins

[Dekel Tsur]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:36:24AM +1030, Darren Freeman wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> Is there an easy way to tell a table to grow up to the width given by
> the margins, and then become automatically fixed-width after that?
> 
> I have a table that fits on the page but I only just found out that it
> violates my margins - if it automatically went to fixed width at that
> point I would have removed some characters to return to single-line
> cells.
> 
> Feature request maybe?

This is tabularx in latex, which is currently not supported by LyX.
It will be supported in the future.

Re: tables and minipages.

[Herbert Voss]

I Wayan Warmada schrieb:


On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Herbert Voss wrote:

| there went something wrong. You mismatched paragraph aligning, minipages
| and table aligning...
|
| look at the attached doc.

Herbert,
could you please tell me where I can find the width setting for minipages.
I have read the manual (advanced). They said in menu layout --> paragraph
(Besondere Absatzformate). I didn't find this menu, both in lyx-1.2.1 and
1.3.0cvs.


the docs are out of date :-(
put the cursor over the minipage buttom and click  right mouse button

Herbert

Re: tables and minipages.

[I Wayan Warmada]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Herbert Voss wrote:

| the docs are out of date :-(
| put the cursor over the minipage buttom and click  right mouse button

Thank you very much for your suggestion.

Have a nice day,

Wayan