I need to group some bits of text into little clumps,
each clump is two or three lines, and I need the clumps
to be placed two or three to a line. Per the example
at the top of pg 106 of Lamport's LaTeX 2nd ed, I thought
putting each clump in its own minipage should do the job.
But LyX always seems to want to move each minipage down
the page, rather than putting them side-by-side. I've
spaced each minipage with just enough length for its
respective text, and there's plenty of width on the paper.
I can get side-by-side placement if I enclose a group of
paragraphs in a single minipage and use a multicols environment
within that minipage, but then I can't specify the widths
of the clumps of text, and multicol wants to spread
them out too much, wants to equalize the column widths.
How can I get something like this?
aaa bbb
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
ccc ddd eee
CCCCCCCCC DDDDDDDDDDDDDD EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
TIA
(LyX 1.1.5fix1)
Jim
