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

2003-09-29 Thread Rod Pinna
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Joachim Heidemeier wrote: > I would propose to define array.sty as a prerequisite for table > support in lyx and use the format mechanism via \newcolumntype as the > standard way for lyx. It is from the perspective of an "Office-trained" user > much easier to understand.

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

2003-09-29 Thread Joachim Heidemeier
Am Sonntag, 28. September 2003 17:03 schrieb Herbert Voß: > Helge Hafting schrieb: > > You have a point. Note that the people here can change lyx but > > not latex, and part of the problem here is how latex works. > > no, the point is in which way LyX should support LaTeX > packages, should it be

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

2003-09-28 Thread Helge Hafting
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:34:51PM +0200, j.heidemeier wrote: > O.K I didn't explain it cleary enough. I didn't want to withdraw the existence > of "floating objects" in lyx - I wanted to change the perspective how they > were exposed to the authors - they should stay but they should be viewed as

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 floating figures or floating

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

2003-09-26 Thread 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 floating figures or floating tables. The ability to float in the final layout should be handled as

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->file Well, that is only a short

Re: longtable caption again

2003-09-24 Thread Herbert Voß
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->file Herbert

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