Rotated multirow table cell

Hello LyX users, Is there anyway to have rotated text span multiple rows in LyX? 90° rotated text should span multiple rows in a table. I tried ERT \multirow{2}{2cm}{text} then make the cell rotate 90° but didn't get it to work. Thank you in advance for your suggestions and solutions. Zorigtkhu

Re: How reduce number of hyphenation per page

RH, thank you for your help. The language is Russian. There are quite a lot of long words. I have tried different numerical arguments and following seems to work well in my case. \hyphenpenalty=2000 \exhyphenpenalty=2000 \sloppy Do you know any way to mix different paper formats? My document

How reduce number of hyphenation per page

Hi all, I'm using LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP. My document has utf8 encoding and Cyrillic font. I'm getting about 10 hyphenation per page and doesn't look pretty. Unfortunately microtype package doesn't work with Cyrillic font. So no protrusion and expansion available. By googling, I got a understa

Float placement

Hi all, I'm trying to place a float on top of next page (I'm using default placement). But what I get is a page with float vertically centered. By reading Embedded objects manual I understood that if a float occupies more than 70% of the page then float is placed alone on the next page vertically

Aspell Russian Dictionary corrupt

Hi all, Has anyone tried to install Aspell Russian Dictionary with standard installation of LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP? After downloading the russian spellchecker the following error message appears. The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete. This could be the result of a damage

Period after chapter number

Hi all, How do you place a period after a chapter number and section number. I'm using KOMA script book class. The default is # Chapter heading #.# Section heading What I need is #. Chapter heading #.#. Section heading Thank you in advance for your help. -- Zorigtkhuu Davaanyam

Homepage error

Hi all, Has anyone experienced following by trying to load Lyx homepage? Or is it just from where I'm. *Fatal error*: Call to undefined function news_data() in * /home/lyx/www/www-user/test/pmwiki/cookbook/LyX/news.php* on line *28* I wanted to try new LyX 1.5.5. -- Zorigtkhuu Davaanyam

Again table caption issue

Hi all, I'm sorry to keep bothering with same issue. With help of Bob Lounsbury and Uwe Stoher, I have right aligned caption label and centered caption text in the next line with following code. \usepackage{caption} \DeclareCaptionFormat{custom}{\raggedleft\bfseries#1\par\centerlast\slshape#3\pa

Table caption label customization

Hi all, I've read KOMA Script manual. But I couldn't figure out how to customize table caption. Now I understand table caption consists of following four parts. 1. Caption label 2. Caption number 3. Caption delimiter 4. Caption text I want to leave figure captions as they are and change table ca

Russian style custom table heading

Hi all, In KOMA Script book, table headings are like following. Table #.#: Table heading But in most Russian language books are like following. Table #.# Table heading How can I customize such behavior in LYX? Thank you in advance for solutions. Respectfully, -- Zorigtkhuu Davaanyam

Copy and paste from MS Word

Hi all, How can I copy and paste from MS Word file to LYX while preserving paragraph breaks. I'm going to copy and paste 308 page MS Word file to LYX 1.5.4 and put the formatting back in. When I copy and paste from MS Word to LYX paragraph breaks gets lost and I have to find paragraph ends and h

Help with part name indentation in TOC

Hi all, Please help me with TOC. I have 2 rows of Part name (ctrl+enter). But in pdf output 2nd row of part name is not indented to align with first row. Multiple row Chapter names are indented and aligned just fine. How can I have multiple row part name indented and aligned in TOC. In DVI outp