table headers

[Steve Friedman]

I am new to lyx (I found it in a search for an SCM-amenable tool), and 
have a question:


In the standard WYSIWYG tool, the table headers are a different style than 
rest of the table.  How do I get the same effect in lyx?  I would like to 
configure a style such that table headers are automatically emphasized 
with a 10% grey background, without having to configure each table 
separately.  Of course, the next question is how do I select which rows 
are table header rows and which aren't.


Steve Friedman

table headers

[Steve Friedman]

I am new to lyx (I found it in a search for an SCM-amenable tool), and 
have a question:


In the standard WYSIWYG tool, the table headers are a different style than 
rest of the table.  How do I get the same effect in lyx?  I would like to 
configure a style such that table headers are automatically emphasized 
with a 10% grey background, without having to configure each table 
separately.  Of course, the next question is how do I select which rows 
are table header rows and which aren't.


Steve Friedman

table headers

[Steve Friedman]

I am new to lyx (I found it in a search for an SCM-amenable tool), and 
have a question:


In the standard WYSIWYG tool, the table headers are a different style than 
rest of the table.  How do I get the same effect in lyx?  I would like to 
configure a style such that table headers are automatically emphasized 
with a 10% grey background, without having to configure each table 
separately.  Of course, the next question is how do I select which rows 
are table header rows and which aren't.


Steve Friedman

lack of automatic table cell wrapping

[Steve Friedman]

I am trying to generate a lyx document from a script, and came across lyx 
which seemed like a perfect fit because the ASCII syntax made it simple to 
write a script that could generate a pretty-printable document.  However, 
I am being hampered by a lack of automatic table cell wrapping (that, and 
I last used latex 20 years ago, so creating a layout is more of a hassle 
than I would prefer).  From what I have been able to discover from the 
web, latex will only wrap table cells if a fixed width has first been 
specified by the user.  This seems wrong, since no one would want a table 
to extend past the page margin.


Not knowing the internals of either latex or lyx, I was wondering why a 
simple algorithm of selecting the optimal layout amongst those that had 
the minimal row count wasn't implemented?  The implementation itself seems 
fairly straightforward as one could consider each column in isolation to 
compute those critical widths at which the row count was affected, and 
then combine the columns to determine the optimal widths.



Steve Friedman

lack of automatic table cell wrapping

[Steve Friedman]

I am trying to generate a lyx document from a script, and came across lyx 
which seemed like a perfect fit because the ASCII syntax made it simple to 
write a script that could generate a pretty-printable document.  However, 
I am being hampered by a lack of automatic table cell wrapping (that, and 
I last used latex 20 years ago, so creating a layout is more of a hassle 
than I would prefer).  From what I have been able to discover from the 
web, latex will only wrap table cells if a fixed width has first been 
specified by the user.  This seems wrong, since no one would want a table 
to extend past the page margin.


Not knowing the internals of either latex or lyx, I was wondering why a 
simple algorithm of selecting the optimal layout amongst those that had 
the minimal row count wasn't implemented?  The implementation itself seems 
fairly straightforward as one could consider each column in isolation to 
compute those critical widths at which the row count was affected, and 
then combine the columns to determine the optimal widths.



Steve Friedman

lack of automatic table cell wrapping

[Steve Friedman]

I am trying to generate a lyx document from a script, and came across lyx 
which seemed like a perfect fit because the ASCII syntax made it simple to 
write a script that could generate a pretty-printable document.  However, 
I am being hampered by a lack of automatic table cell wrapping (that, and 
I last used latex 20 years ago, so creating a layout is more of a hassle 
than I would prefer).  From what I have been able to discover from the 
web, latex will only wrap table cells if a fixed width has first been 
specified by the user.  This seems wrong, since no one would want a table 
to extend past the page margin.


Not knowing the internals of either latex or lyx, I was wondering why a 
simple algorithm of selecting the optimal layout amongst those that had 
the minimal row count wasn't implemented?  The implementation itself seems 
fairly straightforward as one could consider each column in isolation to 
compute those critical widths at which the row count was affected, and 
then combine the columns to determine the optimal widths.



Steve Friedman