I'm trying to make a table with the headers bottom justified, and the rest top justified. I can get the headers right, but when I try to top justify any of the remaining rows, it messes up the headers. I'd like to do it in Lyx, because the actual table I'm using is rather large with long text, and it is much easier in a table editor. Here's a MWE:
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Three line text that is top aligned that wraps around and keeps going
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One
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Here's the result:
Note that the two wider columns are left-justified. In one version of the document, on one table, I was able to top justify everything, and hit <Ctrl-Enter> above headings that needed moving down, but currently, it just eats those characters :/. Putting a vertical space above the titles didn't yield the right result either. Here's somebody doing the same thing, but not in Lyx:
However, if I add the following to the preamble:
\usepackage{makecell,}
\renewcommand\theadfont{\normalsize\bfseries}
\renewcommand\theadalign{lb}
\newcolumntype{$}{>{\global\let\currentrowstyle\relax}}
\newcolumntype{^}{>{\currentrowstyle}}
\newcommand{\rowstyle}[1]{\gdef\currentrowstyle{#1}%
#1\ignorespaces
}
\newcommand{\ra}[1]{\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{#1}}
\newcolumntype{M}{>{\varwidth[t]{3cm}}l<{\endvarwidth}}
and add the ERT \ra{1.3} just above the table, and top-justify the data row, the header row is top-justified, too. This probably has to do with the fact that Lyx doesn't mark headers with the \thead environment. It is not possible to add ERT before and after a single row in Lyx (without specifying the thole table as ERT). It is not a good general solution to bottom-justify the tallest cells, as suggested on their wiki: LyX wiki | LyX / Tables, since 1) the tallest cells alone aren't enough, and one must bottom justify the one and two line cells to bottom justify the whole row; and 2) by the time you bottom justify the one and two line header cells you need to, and top justify the one and two line cells in the rest of the table you need to, you've specified different vertical alignments for the same column - thereby messing up the header row.
Since some people, such as myself, will be happy to have headers on all tables, ideally, someone might find a solution that applies to all tables. I would also be happy to add code to each table to make this happen. It would be nice to have a document-wide and a table-specific solution, if both can be readily worked out, for both types of usages; but a table-specific solution alone would be great, in and of itself.
