On 1/10/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>Is it possible with LyX the creation of tables like the first one shown at > >>> > >>>http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/13.html > >> > >>It is, have a look at > >> > >>http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Tables > >> > >>You find ther an example lyx-file in the section "colored tables". > > > > Thanks, Uwe, for the very useful link. Attached, it is an example that > > I have adapted, which seems to exhibit a bug, since it seems > > impossible to add a certain vertical border. Please, see the file > > attached. > > Try right-clicking the top left cell and inserting a vertical bar (|) at > the very start of the LaTeX argument, i.e. > > |>{\columncolor{darkgreen}\centering}c
Thanks, Paul. Your suggestion succeeds, but should not it work through mere manipulation inside "Borders" tab? Another problem: not all borders of the table shown inside LyX are shown in the corresponding dvi or pdf files. (Please, have a look at them.) Can one overcome this problem? Paul