On 23/04/2008, at 12.39, Helge Hafting wrote:
Jon Bendtsen wrote:
Hi
Why are the table too wide?
Because you wrote too much text inside.
I dont want to spent time fixing the table width. I suggest 2
possible options if the table is too wide.
1) scale font so all text can be there in one line
2) break the text inside the table into multiple lines
As you show - there are several ways of doing this. they look very
different, so
clearly the computer cannot make the choice automatically. Different
people
may want to do this differently, after all. When breaking text
inside the table,
what columns would you want to do that with? Perhaps you want one of
them
a little wider than the other because it is more important? LyX
simply can't
guess such things.
You can change the font if you like. Or you can make a table column
fixed-width
and then the text inside will break into lines automatically.
When i tried to make the table columns a fixed width with % but for
some reason 10% of pagewidth was not the 10% of pagewidth i
expected.
I want 100% to be the width of the page minus the margins. I want to
set the max table width, and then i may want to assign a max column
width to the columns based on the max table width.
Do you know any other word processor that do this automatically - and
gets it right also?
I dont use other word processors, but i seem to remember that they
did not make tables wider than the page.
