On May 15, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Daniel Lohmann wrote:

While I know how to build some table in LyX/LaTeX, I get frequently
frustrated when I have  to tweak and optimize the layout (individual
cell width, border styles, inner-cell margins, fonts, ...)

Read Edward Tufte's _The Visual Display of Quantitative Information_
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

use booktabs (support has been added in v1.5) and read its documentation as well:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/

William

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William Adams
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Fry Communications


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