> I don't think we should limit the subfig capabilities for the sake of a
> package we don't support. I don't use caption and I _need_ subfig's caption
> options anyway.
caption is one of the most popular LaTeX-packages, so we can expect that many users load it in the
preamble. The EmbeddedObjects manual currently doesn't compile due to this issue.
What subfig caption options do you need? I'm asking because a document should have consistent
caption formats - for all float types. There are 2 ways of getting this:
- using caption
- using the document class caption options, like for koma-script.
When I use subfig's own caption settings, I only change the caption format of subfloats while other
captions will look different. This can also no be fixed since caption can currently not loaded in
the preamble.
> IMO, people who use the caption package have to pass "caption=false" to the
> global options.
This doesn't work because this option is also a valid option of the caption package leading to LaTeX
errors. The caption manual explicitely states that the option must be given to subfig and NOT to
caption.
> A better solution, of course, would be caption package support.
I fear this is not easly possible as this interferes with caption commands of document classes. I
found a lot of bugs in the past in the caption package and it is still very sensitive concerning
interferences to other LaTeX-packages and the loading order in the preamble. So if possible I would
postpone this to LyX 1.7.
regards Uwe
