Re: table desing flaws in lyx / possible improvements (was: longtable caption again)

2003-09-26 Thread j.heidemeier
Am Freitag, 26. September 2003 13:04 schrieb Helge Hafting: > j.heidemeier wrote: > > 3. The main exposure of the Floats is misleading from the authors > > perspective. Floats are TeX's typesetting perspective. For the author > > tabular and longtable are similar - not fl

table desing flaws in lyx / possible improvements (was: longtable caption again)

2003-09-25 Thread j.heidemeier
H. Voss schrieb: > j.heidemeier schrieb: >> At the moment longtables really suck :-(. >yesss ... :-) >Write the whole longtable in pure LaTeX code into a single >file (not as LyX file, only text). >Then you can use in an esay way a caption. In Lyx do a >Insert-&g

Re: longtable caption again

2003-09-24 Thread j.heidemeier
Hi all, referring to the longtable thread from beginning of this month, I ran into another problem. As I have to convert a lot of tables from normal Office programs I wrote a csv2lyx converter (a Tcl Script) which transformed the tables into a uniform layout. After googling around in tex newsgroup

Problem with the integration of wrapfloat

2003-09-19 Thread j.heidemeier
Dear LyX experts, for a brouchure I want to use coloured boxes wrapped with the normal text as design elemet to summarize the main points of a chapter. To that extent I defined in the Preamble a new float type (using float.sty) __ \newfloat {floatBox}{htb}{mp} __