On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 02:57:35AM +0100, Andi wrote:
> If I fix the column width of a table, I´m no longer able to center the
> text in the table.
> Dekel did some suggestions and attached an example file, but
> unfortunatly I was not able to open it (msg10030.html). There was an
> error message: "Tabular<5 no longer supported, use an older version of
> Lyx" and then Lyx crashed.
> Does anyone has a solution for this problem?
Press on the "Extra" button, and write >{\centering}p{<width>} in the
Special column alignment field, where <width> is the desired width.
You also need to put \usepackage{array} at the preamble.
You do not need to enter the width in the width field.
See the attached file.
> Another question is: Do I have to enter each column after another and
> add the table width? Because, if I mark more than one to enter the same
> width for all of them, only one was affected.
You can only set one column at a time.
> While doing this, I ran in another strange thing: If I want to change a
> width I already entered, the cursor leaves the field as soon as I delete
> are enter ONE charakter and I have to use the mouse to activate the
> field again before I can enter the next charakter. Are there some
> settings, I have to change (Lyx1.1.5fix)?
This is a bug.
#LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 2.16
\textclass article
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{array}
\end_preamble
\language american
\inputencoding default
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 12
\spacing single
\papersize Default
\paperpackage a4wide
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
\layout Standard
\added_space_top 0.3cm \added_space_bottom 0.3cm \align center \LyXTable
multicol5
4 3 0 0 -1 -1 -1 -1
1 0 0 0
1 0 0 0
1 0 0 0
1 1 0 0
8 1 0 "" ""
8 1 0 "" ">{\centering}p{2in}"
8 1 1 "" ""
0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" ""
0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" ""
0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" ""
0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" ""
0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" ""
0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" ""
0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" ""
0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" ""
0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" ""
0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" ""
0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" ""
0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" ""
\newline
1
\newline
\newline
\newline
Centered fixed width column
\newline
\newline
\newline
\newline
\newline
\newline
\newline
\the_end
