Maria Gouskova wrote:
Dear LyX users,
I suspect this may be a LaTeX rather than a LyX issue, but perhaps
some of you might know the answer. The usual solution for breaking
lines in LaTeX tables is to set the table width to a fixed value, for
example, 1 inch. This solution is clumsy (in my opinion, at least) but
it produces the desired result, with some experimentation. It doesn't
work, however, when the contents of the cell is underlined. The Is
there any way to break up the contents of a table cell across lines
with underlining?
Maria
Try the following:
1. In the preamble, '\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}'.
2. In ERT, inside the table cell at the start of the text to be
underlined, '\uline{'.
3. In ERT, at the end of the underlined text, '}'.
This of course presumes you've installed the ulem package. :-) The
"normalem" option tells it not to convert emphasized text from italics
to underlined (its default behavior).
I'll note in passing that
http://dillgroup.ucsf.edu/latex/texfaq_14.html, specifically the section
"Underlined text won't break", contains the following quote:
"Nevertheless, typographically illiterate people (such as those that
specify double-spaced thesis styles) continue to require underlining of
us ..." My impression is that underlining was "deprecated" at about the
same time that the IBM Selectric typewriter passed into history, other
than for occasional funky uses (such as identifying keyboard input,
say). I'm not a purist on these things, but I usually consider
something like a monospaced font as a substitute for underlining.
HTH,
Paul
