> I recently adapted a colleague's document from LaTeX and it was simply easier to redraw a slightly complex table in LyX than to understand the table markup. I

> I recently adapted a colleague's document from LaTeX and it was simply easier to redraw a slightly complex table in LyX than to understand the table markup. I think he'd be disheartened to learn how fast it was to produce the table. Can't you even import some of those?