Hi!
This is not a nice behavoir. You can enter at that position that the line
break should be a conrol+enter secence. That produces normaly the linefeed
command ("\\" in Latex) but in tables it produces a linefeed on the
screen. It isn't affecting the printed document.
Try it.
Andreas
---Reply to mail from Russ Ross about wide tables
> I'm creating tables of two columns where the first column is just a
> label, and the right column contains a paragraph or so of text. I set
> the maximum width from the table layout dialog box, and it prints fine,
> but it is nearly impossible to edit.
>
> On the screen the body of text is displayed as a single horizontal line
> (ie, no word wrap) for each entry, and the displayed table is _very_
> wide. There is no horizontal scroll bar, so the only way I seem to be
> able to work around it is to make the window as wide as I can, drag it
> most of the way off the screen, then widen it again, etc. until the
> part I want to edit is finally on the screen.
>
> Is there a way to get it to use word wrap when editing inside tables on
> the screen? Either the fixed width that I specified for the table, or
> something convenient for the window size would be nice. If not, I'd
> like to make a feature request :)
>
> Right now, I end up loading the .lyx file into vi or something like
> that to do editing of the table text, and that's really not a great way
> to do it. Am I missing something simple here? Is there another
> workaround?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Russ
>
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