[Journal] trouble figuring out tex conversion, article 166

[Scott Mitchell]

Thanks.  I'll try the tabular suggestions, as well as probably trying  
to simplify the table (or splitting it up).

On 24-Feb-2010, at 14:35 , Markus Neteler wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Scott Mitchell <smitch at me.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, on my first attempt at converting someone else's work in to tex  
>> for the
>> journal, I'm having trouble.
>>
>> I've tried multiple ways, and always I get stuck on the big table  
>> that is in
>> this article.
>>
>> So I've committed files to svn including the original Word  
>> documents, and am
>> hoping someone can help me out.
>>
>> volume_6/en-us/events/OrshovenWawer_summercourse/166-292-1- 
>> SP_rw.doc is the
>> last version of the .doc file that I exchanged with the authors.
>>
>> volume_6/en-us/events/OrshovenWawer_summercourse/ 
>> 166-292-2_tableOnly.doc is
>> just the table, with a bit of clean-up already applied.
>>
>> There are a couple versions of my attempts at .tex conversion in  
>> there, too.
>>  I have many more, but that would just be a mess.  I have tried:
>>        - creating the table by manually wrapping simple table  
>> formatting
>> codes around the raw text (lead to a big mess, I think because  
>> perhaps I
>> can't use an itemized list inside a table???)
>>        - creating the table from scratch, using LyX (resulting in  
>> an almost
>> empty table when rendered)
>>        - translating the .doc into .tex using open office  
>> (resulting in a
>> LOT of error messages from pdflatex, no pdf created)
>>        - doing the above, and then "cleaning" out all the extra .tex
>> formatting that I didn't think was necessary (leading to a different
>> nonsense table).
>>
>> I would love input / hand-holding to get this accomplished.  If  
>> someone
>> could even create just the table for me (or tell me how), I can  
>> fill in the
>> other stuff.
>
>
> Scott,
> please check here:
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables#The_tabularx_package_-_simple_column_stretching
>
> I discovered it recently and used it, leaving behind previous  
> troubles.
>
> Best
> Markus