On 10/30/2018 6:50 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I have an 82-line text file which has 5 columns separated by pipes. '|', > and a wide column with location names. Text file format examples: > > 10775 | Santiam R. at Jefferson > Bridge | 1979-11-06 | 2011-01-06 | 67 > 10386 | Middle Fork Willamette R. at asper > Bridge | 1979-11-06 | 2011-01-05 | 66 > 29043 | Willamette R. at Willamette Park boat > ramp/Corvallis | 2002-10-02 | 2011-01-06 | 60 > 26339 | Willamette R. upstream of Newberg Bridge at Rogers > Landing | 2002-10-01 | 2011-01-13 | 59 > 10344 | Willamette R. at Wheatland > Ferry | 1980-02-07 | 2011-01-10 | 58 > 29044 | Willamette R. at Greenway bike > bridge/Eugene | 2002-10-02 | 2011-01-04 | 52 > 10379 | Coast Fork Willamette R. at Hwy > 58 | 1979-11-06 | 2011-01-05 | 50 > 10821 | Willamette R. at St. Johns > Bridge | 2004-08-04 | 2011-01-11 | 48 > 10355 | Willamette R. at Hwy 99E > (Harrisburg) | 1980-02-06 | 2011-01-04 | 46 > 31731 | Willamette R. at Wallace Marine Park boat > ramp | 2005-05-31 | 2011-01-10 | 44 > 27986 | Middle Fork Willamette R above Hills Crk at USGS Gage > 14144800 | 2002-10-03 | 2011-01-05 | 44 > > (N.B. Line length is 110 characters so it likely will be wrapped at > different lengths, depending on which MUA you use.) > > In LyX this will be a long table in landscape orientation among > pages in > portrait orientation. > > What is the most efficient procedure to import this to a 5-column, > 83-row > table? And, can I define the table size without dragging the table > icon off > the bottom of the monitor? > > TIA, > > Rich
I have done this, seems to work: 1. Replace all the "|" with the tab character with a text editor. 2. Select the portion you want to paste. 3. Go to the first cell in Lyx. 4. Edit > Paste Special > Plain Text. 5. Table row and columns numbers should be compatible with the text file contents... However, if you want a more automated process, maybe you can generate a LyX file using some Matlab or Python code. Then insert this LyX file into your main LyX document. LyX has the following format for table cells: <cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" bottomline="true" leftline="true" usebox="none"> \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Plain Layout **** CELL CONTENT **** \end_layout \end_inset </cell> Baris
