> > > In principle yes (thats the way I made it in my report) but as longtable > > only have a footer and lastfooter and no firstfooter tag you have the > > problems with the list of tables (multiple entries in the lot or wrong > > pagenumbers). Several years ago there was a thread in USENET about the > > toc problem, where the author of longtable package explained why it ist > > difficult to have a firstfooter in longtable and that table-captions > > definitly _ARE ABOVE THE TABLE_ due to typographic reasons. So the > > solution was to manully edit the aux file. > > Well anyway we have then to insert the button in all 4 posibilities and > not only to the headers (therefore the question). Agreed, the rest is a problem for the documentation. > > > I see your point, but I'm not shure how to visualize the fact that the > > caption row is not in a cell but a caption above the table. That was the > > reason why I proposed separate entry fields. > > It is (relatively) easy to change the visual on screen, LyX is not > WYSIWYG and so we don't have to take care all is equal to the _real_ > output afterwards. As Header/Footer definitions are made now I also > can put them _anywhere_ in the tabular and they the are correctly > put into the latex/docbook file, if the author just doesn't care where > to put them he surely does not care to see them where he put them. > The same is for caption, the important part is the we *can* insert > them and that the real output is right. I really would like to enhance > the visual feedback about what are header/footer rows (maybe painting > the rows with different backgrounds) in future, but for now this is > not really important and can always be added later it's just a missing > feature. o.k. - you are the developper.
But reffering to your last mail your solution for the optional argument is not clear to me. If we interpret the first word of a caption in a cell as optional argument, how do we omit it - as it is optional we dont have to enter it. Maybe it is better to take the convention that the contents of col. 1 is the fixed argument and the contents of column 2 ist the optional argument in a caption row. Greetings -- Dr. Joachim Heidemeier Tel. +49-30-8903-2780 Fachgebiet II 3.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Umweltbundesamt, Bismarckplatz 1 D-14191 Berlin
