#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass article \language english \inputencoding latin1 \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize Default \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 0 \use_amsmath 0 \use_natbib 0 \use_numerical_citations 0 \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation skip \defskip medskip \quotes_language danish \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \layout Standard \align center \series bold \size largest Some examples of how to use minipages \layout Standard \align center \series bold \size largest in LyX \layout Standard \added_space_bottom bigskip \align center \series bold \size largest by Jürgen Vigna (jug@sad.it) \layout Standard \begin_inset Minipage position 0 inner_position 0 height "0pt" width "45text%" collapsed false \layout Standard \added_space_top 0.3cm \added_space_bottom 0.3cm \align center \begin_inset Tabular \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 1 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 2 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 3 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 4 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 5 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 2 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard a \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard b \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard c \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard d \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 3 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard e \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard f \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard g \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard h \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 4 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard i \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard j \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard k \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard l \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 5 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard m \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard n \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard o \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard p \end_inset \end_inset \end_inset \hfill \begin_inset Minipage position 0 inner_position 0 height "0pt" width "45text%" collapsed false \layout Standard \added_space_top 0.3cm \added_space_bottom 0.3cm \align center \begin_inset Tabular \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 1 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 2 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 3 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 4 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 5 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 2 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard a \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard b \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard c \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard d \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 3 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard e \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard f \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard g \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard h \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 4 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard i \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard j \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard k \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard l \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard 5 \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard m \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard n \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard o \end_inset \begin_inset Text \layout Standard p \end_inset \end_inset \end_inset \layout Standard \begin_inset Minipage position 0 inner_position 0 height "0pt" width "45text%" collapsed false \layout Standard \align center This is Table 1 \end_inset \hfill \begin_inset Minipage position 0 inner_position 0 height "0pt" width "45text%" collapsed false \layout Standard \align center This is Table 2 \end_inset \layout Subsection* 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 shows): \layout Standard \hfill \begin_inset Minipage position 0 inner_position 0 height "0pt" width "45text%" collapsed false \layout Standard \lang german Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text \begin_inset Foot collapsed true \layout Standard \lang german Dies ist eine Fußnote \end_inset . Dies ist ein deutscher Text. Dies ist ein deutscher Text. \end_inset \hfill \begin_inset Minipage position 0 inner_position 0 height "0pt" width "45text%" collapsed false \layout Standard This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. This is an english Text. \begin_inset Foot collapsed true \layout Standard This is a footnote \end_inset This is an english Text. \end_inset \layout Standard I hope this helps understand for what f.ex. you can use minipages! \layout Subsection* Greets Jürgen \the_end