On 7 Jul, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote:
I am trying to set up a multi-page, fixed width column table, but my
attempts seem to be blissfully ignored by LyX. That is, I select the
table, go into the pop-up dialog and enter a value in the 'width'
field. I
did this for all the columns in my table. But nothing happens---as
soon as
I go into a cell and add content, the cell is horizontally resized. I
am
following the exact procedure described in the user's guide, and I
would
expect the cell to grow vertically, not horizontally. Can anyone
enlighten
me on the correct steps to follow? I tried both LyX 1.3 and 1.4, with
identical results. I am on a Mac, BTW.
Well, you're allowed to use an Apple product.
I have tables in my book similar to what you're trying to create. By
trial-and-error I discovered that I needed to manually break the cell
content into multiple lines; there is no automagic line wrap.
Sometimes I
also dropped the font one size; that made the typeset table look
better.
Thanks Rich, that would take car of part of the problem. But how do you
break a line in a cell? neither a common return nor a linebreak seem to
work.
Leaving aside the problem of line-wrapping, how did you manage to fix
the width of the columns in your tables?
Stefano
HTH,
Rich
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