Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >i am already setting a fixed width. the problem is that using 100 with > >text%, col%, page% and line% never uses the width i'd expect (ie the same as > >the surrounding text). > > > > [...] > For a single-column table, don't set the width. Instead, > set the "latex argument" (in the same dialog) to: > |>{\raggedright}p{1\tabwidth}
I have handy a lyx template I wrote some time ago. It was about a custom layout so not all of it is relevant to this topic. However there was something about tables that I think can be of help to the OP. Please find that excerpt here: http://barolo.pisa.cnit.it/ef/tables.lyx -- Enrico