Hi all,
referring to the longtable thread from beginning of this month, I ran into
another problem.
As I have to convert a lot of tables from normal Office programs I wrote
a csv2lyx converter (a Tcl Script) which transformed the tables into a
uniform layout.
After googling around in tex newsgroups I decided to use columnmformats
(\newcolumntype definition / and special attribute in lyxtabular) and for the
headerrow overriding the normal columndefiniton with multicolumn. I'm working
with normal text, decimal aligned columns for numbers (using dcolumn) and
leftaligned multirow cells with adjustable width - and for the headers the
same types (without the dcolumformat) with a smaller font.
Works like a charm for normal tabulars (in a Float) but for longtables the
trick with inserting the caption in the first cell does not work, as the
whole contents is exported as one multicolumn command. The same effect also
applies to cell content with fontsize set via format Character.
I think it is necessary to define two caption insets for longtable for the
endfirsthead and endhead command / attribute in lyx, both with an optional
argument.
At the moment longtables really suck :-(.
Yours
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Dr. Joachim Heidemeier Tel. +49-30-8903-2780
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Umweltbundesamt, Bismarckplatz 1 D-14191 Berlin
