On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > The tedious but (moderately) straightforward approach is to start with > an Nx33 table, then merge cells by drag-selecting them and clicking the > multicolumn button in the table toolbar (or using the right-click table > dialog and selecting multicolumn). Separate borders can be set (the > usual way) for multicolumn cells.
Thank you Paul. I updated from 1.4.x to 1.5.2 and started to do this. At first, it started to work and I could generate several DVIs as I worked on it. But once I was finished, it errored with: LaTeX Error: Illegal character in array arg. LaTeX Error: Illegal character in array arg. LaTeX Error: Illegal character in array arg. LaTeX Error: Illegal character in array arg. LaTeX Error: Illegal character in array arg. LaTeX Error: Illegal character in array arg. Misplaced \noalign. Misplaced alignment tab character &. Misplaced \omit. Misplaced \span. Misplaced \omit. Misplaced \span. So I "Ctrl-Z" to undo several changes checking one at a time, and finally got back to LyX document that could be rendered. The two documents are: http://reedmedia.net/~reed/tmp-lyx-asilcfybgiqu8rt7/table-broken.lyx http://reedmedia.net/~reed/tmp-lyx-asilcfybgiqu8rt7/table-works-but-incomplete.lyx Any ideas about above errors? I couldn't find anyway for LyX to show me the error for each. I thought I could click on the error dialog box. Maybe that didn't work for me since the table is wider than my LyX window. And I thought there was some menu item to take me to the next error. Any suggestions on how to know what the errors refer to? Or why LyX generated broken LaTeX? Also I have a problem with trying to get multiple of the column widths changed at one time. It seems like even though multiple are highlighted, only the one with my LyX cursor gets its width changed. I need to get the entire generated table to be narrower so it will fit in the printed book. Jeremy C. Reed
