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by adrianmsmith 2849 days ago
LyX is a wonderful program and I do love it, but one thing I will caution against is tables. If you need to use tables, consider not using LyX. LyX looks like it can do tables, the UI in LyX is great for editing tables, however...

Tables do not split across pages (at least not by default). Word and Google Docs etc. can do this out of the box. Maybe there is a way to get this to work. For e.g. the description of a database table, as a table in the document with columns like "column name", "type", "description", not being able to use multiple pages is a real limitation.
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lima 2849 days ago
That's how LaTeX tables work.

You can enable the "multi table" option in the table properties, which will use the longtable package to extend the table across multiple pages.

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memling 2849 days ago
A bit of a pain, but you can do this by inserting the table, modifying the settings, and using the long table.

The formatting is a bit different, but I believe it will split the table across pages while supporting headers, footers, captions, and other options.

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