LyXProblem with horizontal Table Cell Alignment

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gritchie
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Problem with horizontal Table Cell Alignment

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I'm on Windows 7 with Lyx 2.0.2-1; relatively new to LaTeX but I can bring up the LaTeX Source view in Lyx and see that Lyx is not setting the alignment of a multicolumn cell appropriately. In the Lyx view I have it aligned right but in the Source view:

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\multicolumn{7}{c}{...
and in the rendered PDF the cell is also centered.

Is there anything I can do to remedy this until a fix is released?

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gritchie
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Problem with horizontal Table Cell Alignment

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Workaround: In the Lyx: tabular dialog, Table Settings tab, set LaTeX argument: to r

I'll try to submit a bug soon. Didn't see a related report in the tracker yesterday.
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Stefan Kottwitz
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Re: Problem with horizontal Table Cell Alignment

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Thanks for posting the workaround!

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