On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Lastalda Felina <lasta...@googlemail.com>wrote:

> This is probably a stupid question, but I'm still fairly new to Lyx.
> I want to use a longtable in my thesis. From what I've read across
> various sources, I need to rightclick on the table, click through to
> the "options => long tables" setting and then tick off the little box
> saying "use longtable". But for some reason I cannot tick it, it's
> greyed out so un-selectable.
> (Screenshot: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/lastalda/longtable.png)
>
> Do I need to use some specific package to be able to access the
> longtable option? Or some special setting?
> (I'm using the koma(book) class, if that is relevant.)
>

Longtables do not work in floats, and it seems that your table is in a
float.

There might be ways around, but I am not aware of any (and doubt they are
useful).
Cheers,

Rainer



>
> Thank you in advance for your help!
> Lastalda
>



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