Thanks a lot .... I managed to get colrotbl working with a new version ..
Kind regards
Soren
On Thursday 04 August 2005 18:14, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Søren O'Neill wrote:
> > I've managed to get the backgrounds of rows in my table gray using
> > colortbl, but it skips all multicolumn cells (i.e they are not gray'ed) -
> > any suggestions ? I'll edit the raw lyx/latex file if needed :-)
> >
> > kind regards
>
> The following works for me (using package xcolor, which in turn calls
> colortbl).
>
> 1. In the preamble: \usepackage[table]{xcolor}.
>
> 2. In ERT before the table: \rowcolors{1}{gray}. (The first argument
> says to start coloring in row 1, the second sets the background color.)
>
> 3. Right click in any multicolumn cell and put the following in the
> LaTeX command box: |>{\columncolor{gray}}c|. The 'c' is to center
> horizontally (use 'l' or 'r' for left or right); this inclusion
> apparently overrides the horizontal alignment specified in the drop-down
> list of the LyX dialog, and omitting it seems to cause a LaTeX error.
> The two '|' characters are replace the left and right cell borders (if
> either or both are deleted); include or omit as needed. Note that you
> apparently need to close the table dialog for these changes to take effect.
>
> I've attached a small example.
>
> HTH,
>
> Paul
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