Hi,Thank you, .. I have been jumping though hoops to control my text width within a cell ( inserting boxes into cells - argh)... your question cause me to try your example out and with a little paying around I've learnt something.
Anyway the way I see it (and I could be wrong), is that width you changed to 25% possibly would read better being labelled "text width" - not column width
In the lyx file I've returned to you I have set an overall table width to 100%, and treated the columns width as text width. even though my "column" widths dont add up to 100% the table width is still 100%
Notice that cell 3 is only 8% and looks like cells 2 & 4 have extra 'margins' to be visually appealing, if you put cell width back to 20% you will see those extra 'margins' in cells 2 & 4 magically disappear.
I'd say you can't set 25% for all the 'column' widths as think of it as 'text' width than add some margin so text is not crowded on border you will soon notice 4*( 25% text + margins + borders) > 100%
Cheers Steve On 03/04/13 09:00, Csikos Bela wrote:
Hello: I have trouble width tables again. I followed the advice at http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Tables: "ยง Arrgh. Why has my table disappeared off the edge of the page?" but my table becomes wider than the text, and hangs out on the right side (into the right margin). I defined 4 colums, each 25% textwidth. It seems that not the whole column width is defined by this, since the overall width is more than 100%. What does column width define exactly then? And how could I define table or column widths exactly including everything from left to right edge? I attach an example lyx and pdf file. Thanks, bcsikos
table-column-width-example.lyx
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