Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stacia Hartleben"
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Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:18 PM
Subject: weird table problems in Lyx
I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but most times when I make
a table, the first row of the table is seperate than the others. I can
get around this by deleting and inserting more rows, but it's a pain.
What am I doing wrong? Also, is there an easy way to set the lines of
the table to not show up? I can do it per row or cell but I don't know
if there's an easy way to fix the whole table.
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You aren't doing anything wrong that is just the way Lyx draws tables on
the screen and annoyingly in the output.
As for the cell borders, you have to do them one by one.
Basically table support in Lyx is one of its failings.
Sorry not to be anymore help - that said if you use Windows, you can
always make pretty tables in Excel and import them into lyx.
Geoff
The "separation" of the first row in the table is not done by LyX; it's
how LaTeX does tables. On the assumption that the first row will be
headings, it gets a double underline. (Unlike office suites, LaTeX does
not support "thick" v. "thin" lines, at least not unless someone has
developed a package for it, so the double underline is its version of
"thick".) To make the first row look like every other row, just
eliminate either the bottom border of the first row or the top border of
the second row.
To zap all the borders in a table, do the following:
1. Left click just inside the upper left cell. Cursor placement is a
bit finicky: you don't want to be in the text entry box for the cell,
you want to be between the cell boundary and where the text inserts.
2. Drag diagonally downward to highlight the entire table.
3. Right click to get the table settings window, pick the Borders tab
and click the Clear button.
Paul
