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Some examples of how to use minipages
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in LyX 
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by Jürgen Vigna (jug@sad.it)
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I use the following when I have to write bilingual text (I live in a region
 in Italy where about 60% of the people speak german and so you have to
 write letters in german and italian in two columns as the following text
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\lang german
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I hope this helps understand for what f.ex.
 you can use minipages!
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Greets Jürgen
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