Re: Tables stuff

1999-09-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 08-Sep-99 Michael Hanke wrote: >> >> You're right with this vertical alignment is not possible yet! If someone >> explains me how to do this in raw LaTeX I could add some support, but only >> in the upcoming 1.2 version! > Maybe, I can help here: the array package as explained in the latex >

Re: Tables stuff

1999-09-08 Thread Michael Hanke
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 07-Sep-99 Arcady Genkin wrote: > > 4. I would like to be able chose horizontal and vertical alignment of > > text within a cell. Right now I was not able to achive centered > > vertical alignment of a word in a long cell (it aligned at the very > >

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
> > What about having it displayed like a tooltip while moving lines, taken the > case you would implement it the way I suggested. The only drawback I could see > is that the interactive graphical editing of the column width would make people > believe much more that the line breakes by lyx are w

Re: Tables stuff

1999-09-08 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Ok, *my* frustration with tables: > > 1. Table size. It would be very nice if the table would default to the > size delimetered by page's margins. > This is not posible and is a design option. LaTeX does permit tabulars larger then the page size and it's

Re: Tables stuff

1999-09-08 Thread Tony Greenwood - ext 4668
> > Note, that I have a table wih 2 columns 3cm and 7cm, and below it a > > table with 10 columns 1cm each. Shouldn't they match in size? ;^) > > No. In the first case the width of your table is 10 cm + \tabcolsep, > in the latter 10cm + 9 \tabcolsep. This is standard LaTeX behaviour. > > Andre'

Re: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
> Note, that I have a table wih 2 columns 3cm and 7cm, and below it a > table with 10 columns 1cm each. Shouldn't they match in size? ;^) No. In the first case the width of your table is 10 cm + \tabcolsep, in the latter 10cm + 9 \tabcolsep. This is standard LaTeX behaviour. Andre' -- Andre'

Re: Minipages (was: Tables stuff plus more)

1999-09-07 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Oliver Eichler wrote: >Sure I could manually insert a page break, but this would >completely disturbe the auto-formating and produce "Windows >quality". Why that? Do you used the book-class, where you want to have all last lines on the same position? I think, that latex will

Re: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Arcady Genkin
Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe, it depends if you can give me a real cause ;). Just telling I don't > like it and not saying what you don't like or how you would like things done > is not very helpfull. Ok, *my* frustration with tables: 1. Table size. It would be very nice if

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
> > Yes it gives me a better idea and I'm sorry to have to tell you that this > isn't possible to change :( LyX is as you said WYSIWYMG and this is one > of the examples where you cannot get nearer to the WYSIWYG picture as it > is now. > > What I'd like to change in tabulars is: > > - allow m

Minipages (was: Tables stuff plus more)

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
>> click? Plus having a crosscheck if it makes sense with the currently >> selected >> amount of text to do so, for all the cases the selected text would span two >> pages and more. >> > > I don't really understand what you did or what you wanted to do :), but > using minipages seems to me a bit

RE: Tables stuff plus more

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Oliver Eichler wrote: >>> >> >> Maybe, it depends if you can give me a real cause ;). Just telling I don't >> like it and not saying what you don't like or how you would like things done >> is not very helpfull. >> > > You are right :), I am sorry. > #:O) > single line. And I

RE: Tables stuff plus more

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
>> > > Maybe, it depends if you can give me a real cause ;). Just telling I don't > like it and not saying what you don't like or how you would like things done > is not very helpfull. > You are right :), I am sorry. The trouble began, when she noticed that latex will produce endless lines ov

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Oliver Eichler wrote: > > Hm, I am currently trying to convince my girlfriend to use lyx. Everything is > quite fine for her, except the tables. She, too, moans a lot about the way > tables are done in lyx. I have got the feeling that one of the biggest problems > is the missing int

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Oliver Eichler
On 07-Sep-99 Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 07-Sep-99 Arcady Genkin wrote: >> >> I find that creating tables is quite an awkward process in LyX. What a >> shame -- the program handles everything else so gracefully. >> > > I heard other comments too, but probably that is really subjective :) >

RE: Tables stuff

1999-09-07 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 07-Sep-99 Arcady Genkin wrote: > > I find that creating tables is quite an awkward process in LyX. What a > shame -- the program handles everything else so gracefully. > I heard other comments too, but probably that is really subjective :) > > I figured out I have to specify the table wi

Re: Tables stuff

1999-09-06 Thread Andre Poenitz
> of "Table Layout", but LaTeX doesn't grok it, saying:"!LaTeX Error: > File `rotating.sty' not found. or enter new name. (Default extension: > sty)". Any ideas? Yes ;-) LaTeX did not found rotating.sty. It usually comes with your LaTeX distribution, in my case (SuSE 6.0) it is /usr/share/texmf/

Tables stuff

1999-09-06 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I find that creating tables is quite an awkward process in LyX. What a shame -- the program handles everything else so gracefully. I wanted to create a note about a couple of textbooks that I want to sell at school; the usual stuff: 2x2 table on top with course number in the first colum