On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:11:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Attached an examples > 1) TEST.lyx this contains a lyx file without table. > > Problem is. > The file as is (without empty table) compiles under LyX and produces a > dvi file. > If I add a table from the menu, then LyX refuses to compile and outputs > a plethora of errors and creates a DVI with a lot of Bogus wrong pages. > Can someone confirm this please by 1) compiling as is to verify it works > without table > 2) just adding an empty table from the menu and compiling, verify that > it does not work with an empty table. > > I attach an example with an empty table inserted as TEST1.lyx which > already contain an empty table as you would get by doing what I describe > above, which can be used to track what LyX does wrong on this end. > > > The problem started before lyx 1.4.4 and made all my existing LyX files > (spanning years) unusable due to this table backward compatibility problem. > the problem persists with all later LyX distributions since about > September 2006 and makes all the years of LyX files i have unusable. > > Thanks > Lventer
Would the following workaround work for you: - Add the Standard layout to your layout file for g-brief-en - Reset the layout for all the table cells to this. Yes I know, lots of work :-( - Martin