>>> Does anyone actually use the LyX way to include figures/pictures? >> >> I always use the LyX way, and I frequently produce documents with tens or >> hundreds of figure floats. But to speed things up, once I have the >> settings right (size, justification, position of caption, etc.) I insert >> the next figure by copying and pasting the previous figure, then editing >> the image filename, label and caption appropriately. > > That's what I used to do as well.. but it's silly that LyX of all software > requires you to do this manually for figures. Is there currentlye a way to > have some kind of 'layout' or 'style' for a figure? I.e. so that you can > define the style once?
for including pictures i use two alternative methods: - i created one sample file with all the settings & one figure and put it into templates. then just file -> new from template - if there are hundreds of pictures a use the simplicity of .lyx format and assembly it via few-liner bash scripts. pavel
