Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007 21:23:55 schrieb
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> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Les Denham wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 December 2007, bigblop wrote:
> >> 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?
I don't know if I fully understand how your proposed method would look & feel,
but what I miss most is the ability of resizing a bunch of pictures. In my
thesis, I mostly use figure floats with centered paragraphs with 1-3 pictures
using captions and subfigure captions.
I frequently find myself trying to find the right sizes for the pictures;
usually, I use width=0.xx\linewidth or height=0.xx\linewidth (the latter
looks much better than the first if the figures have slightly different
aspect ratios). With LyX (note that I am still using an 1.4.x svn version
since I had grave problems with 1.5.1 and have nearly only cosmetic changes
left for my thesis -- will try again afterwards), I have to select each
picture in the row, select the size input field, enter the size and apply the
change, select the next picture...
For height=25 line% settings, I even have to select another width unit first
to enable the height input field, which gets disabled each time in 1.4 - hope
that's fixed in 1.5/1.6 in the meantime.
What's missing:
- equal subfigure support for external material
(already improved in recent versions AFAICS)
- subfigure support for multiple pictures or tables (i.e. a subfigure inset?)
- \label support for subfigures (I can enter LaTeX code in the subfigure
lineedit, but the labels of course do not appear in the cross reference
dialog)
* possibly \subref support then, too
- overpic-support (I imagine an additional tab for pictures, which turns them
into overpic environments and lets me enter their contents)
- TikZ support (no exact plans -- currently, I am writing TikZ code in
external files included with \input -- here, I would again benefit from a
subfigure inset that can hold the \input and manage the \label)
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