How to insert new line inside table cell? (wrap text)

steve_656525 · Post by **steve_656525** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 9:38 am

Hello,
I am new to Lyx (just started using it today).
But I know how to program in Latex a little.

I create a table, and I want to add large text
into one cell of a table, but I want to be able
to hit carriage return and have a new line
added automatically inside the same cell.

I read that I can add \linebreak, which I tried,
but when I continue to type, the text remained on
the same line, and did not wrap around.

I am trying to add large amount of text and
want to be able to add more lines to same cell.

Is there a way to do this in Lyx?

thanks
steve

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Post by **localghost** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:28 am

The standard tabular environment allows »p{‹width›}« column types of a certain width. If that's not sufficient, try packages like tabu or tabularx. But I can't advice how to include packages in LyX.

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

steve_656525 · Post by **steve_656525** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:06 am

localghost wrote:The standard environment allows »p{‹width›}« column types of a certain width.

Thanks, yes, I know in Latex how to do it. I use
p{3in} as example.

But in Lyx, it is a GUI thing, and when I hit the
carriage return, I wanted it to start a new line
inside the table cell.

Isn't that the whole point of using a GUI?

I also tried to change the table preferences
to use p{} but do not know how yet.

thanks
steve

dschneiderch · Post by **dschneiderch** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:49 pm

I would also like to know how to do this! \linebreak as ERT doesn't seem to do anything. Is there a way to incorporate p{} as ERT to adjust the column width?? Sorry new to latex/lyx
Lyx 2.0RC2
Perhaps a bug in 2.0? Might try 1.6

dschneiderch · Post by **dschneiderch** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:17 am

And if anyone is reading, I was using TexLive2009 but just updated to 2010 and it still doesn't work

Post by **localghost** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:38 am

dschneiderch wrote:And if anyone is reading, I was using TexLive2009 but just updated to 2010 and it still doesn't work :(

This is a LyX problem thus not related to the TeX distribution.

dschneiderch · Post by **dschneiderch** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:00 pm

but this is the lyx forum, right?

Post by **localghost** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:26 pm

dschneiderch wrote:but this is the lyx forum, right?

The quoted statement could be misleading to a problem with the TeX distribution. Therefore my remark.

dschneiderch · Post by **dschneiderch** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:30 pm

For what it's worth, I was able to insert a 2x1 table in my cell and turned off the borders so I could "wrap" the text.

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