The table is not within a float. (I already found the "don't put longtables in floats" advice before.)
Anything else I might be doing wrong? Would making a short version of the file showing the problem help? 2011/10/5 Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com>: > > > 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 > > > > -- > Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, > UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) > > Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology > Stellenbosch University > South Africa > > Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 > Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 > Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 > > Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 > > email: rai...@krugs.de > > Skype: RMkrug > > -- Zu sagen "Hier herrscht Freiheit" ist immer ein Irrtum oder eine Lüge. Freiheit herrscht nicht. - Ehrich Fried, "Herrschaftsfreiheit" -
