Please remove lyx-users from your To: line as this complaint has little
to do with LyX.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> This is terribly disheartening. I haven't found a single app that can be
> used to make a table for publication - the problem is that it appears that
> linux apps don't really understand what "monospaced font" means.
This is precisely what LyX and LaTeX do with a tabular environment,
regardless of whether you use a monospaced font or not. It will take you
more than 10 minutes to do it though because it will require you to
actually read some documentation to learn how LaTeX (and thus LyX)
to properly generate tables. LyX does not use tabs and spaces (and thus
the source of your troubles), rather it places boxes of text at the
appropriate positions from margins as specified in the table header.
> Four columns with entries like:
>
> H17* R, C -> T +
> H17 R & U5 duplication +
> H168 partial U5 duplication +
> H40 tRNA & cellular sequence insertion +
> H72 U3, GAG -> ACC +
> H115 R, C -> T +
>
> and so forth. NO justification - no center, not left, not right. Just
> whatever I enter by spaces or tabs.
If you insist on this approach, then LyX is not the appropriate tool.
However, LyX can do the job more properly than this if you simply learn
about the tabular environment.
> The names on the left should align - no
> problem in any app.
Layout->Tabular Material->Column/Row->H. Alignment->Left
If you really want 0 space between the margin and the left column, then in
the "Special column" box, enter "@{} l" for left aligned, no space first.
> The center column is mixed.
Layout->Tabular Material->Column/Row->H. Alignment->Center
> The commas and arrows
> (drawn, not the text verstion depicted here) should all line up right down
> the line.
Make a column just for these symbols
> The more complex statments don't matter. Finally, the plus
> symbols should ALL stack up directly one under the other in their respective
> column.
Again, use a unique column. 5 columns, and an experienced LyX user would
be done in less than 5 minutes with camera ready copy.
> Does anyone know of some obscure graphics/vector-drawing app that actually
> truly understands what monospaced fonts are and how they are dealt with?
>
> This is terribly frustrating...
\begin{rant}
I don't know anything about monospaced fonts in Linux, but I do find your
recent series of somewhat hysterical emails somewhat annoying due to their
confrontational nature. You have clearly not read any of the LyX
documentation (of which I am one of the authors), nor have you shown any
real understanding of what LyX actually is. LyX is one tool among many for
preparing documents, and is developed and maintained by a bunch of
volunteers who work on it solely for the love of developing a useful
program. Please turn off your flamethrower, read the LyX Tutorial (at
minumum), then reframe your questions in an non-confrontational tone.
\end{rant}
Mike
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