Will Robertson wrote:
On 23/07/2008, at 12:55 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Will Robertson wrote:
I've been meaning to pass on a few comments that I've collected over
the years, but have hardly ever found the time.
<http://willwont.blogspot.com/2008/07/problems-with-lyx-1.html>
I took a look at Will's list, and in self-defense I have to vote
against his first suggestion. Not that I'm against making anything
easier, but I very much do NOT want inserted figures to automatically
go in floats. Most the time that I'm inserting a figure, it's into a
beamer presentation. I'm not sure beamer even allows floats, but in
any event I would be much happier if, when pointing to the image on
slide 43, the image actually was on slide 43.
I'm certainly not saying that you should be able to just insert plain
graphics :) And I'm not the best to person to suggest exactly *how* to
do this -- but note that it's more obvious from the menu structure to
insert a graphic and not a figure float.
Maybe this is a bad suggestion, but you could have an obvious "Smart
figure" menu item linked to a toolbar button that inserts a figure float
and prompts for a graphic in the normal document mode, but inserts just
a plain graphic in beamer.
Figure > Smart figure
> Plain graphic
> Figure float
I dunno. I agree it's not an easy problem!
Will
I was thinking along the lines of Insert -> Figure -> Floating and
Insert -> Figure -> Static (or something like that). Insert -> Figure
-> Floating could insert the float and then prompt for the figure file,
with an option to skip inserting the figure now and return to it later.
That's probably necessary, because the user may be writing the figure
in a picture or tikz environment rather than loading a file.
Something a bit more detailed than the current mechanism is not a bad
idea. Among other things, users sometimes insert figures in the caption
of a float (and nothing good ever comes of that).
Of course, we're just making more work for the developers here. :-)
/Paul
