----- Original Message -----
From: "Herbert Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: weird table problems in Lyx
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
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.
really nonsense.
- Mark all cells of the table
- right mouseclick with cursor inside the table
- in the tab menu option border
- clear all
This is not something I was aware of and apologise for incorrect
information.
Basically table support in Lyx is one of its failings.
read the docs, then it is easier ... ;-)
I have and even in the docs it is admitted that Lyx support of tables is not
very good. This is a well known fact and many people on this list have spent
hours trying to get tables the way they want them to look in Lyx with little
success. Latex itself is not 'naturally' good at tabular stuff and needs
many extra packages to do things properly.
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.
a crazy way of creating tables ...
This is not crazy if it gets what you want quickly. I can do all my data
analysis in Excel and then export the table into Lyx. Firstly I can have
great control over borders and centring and mulitcolumns etc and secondly I
don't have to labouriously re-enter my data.
I don't usually react to such open criticism of an idea but we aren't all
experts and surely the point of software is to produce what you want in the
best possible way for you. I could spend all day mastering tables in Lyx (or
more like a few weeks!) but instead I use something I know that produces
output that looks good in a fraction of the time - where is the crazy in
that. It maybe that Stacia would find my method quick and acceptable yet you
have now dismissed it out of hand.
Geoff
