On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn <v...@lyx.org> wrote:
> Op 26-4-2013 4:10, Scott Kostyshak schreef:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn <v...@lyx.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Op 19-3-2013 4:35, Scott Kostyshak schreef:
>>>
>>>> The option could be labelled one of the following:
>>>>
>>>> (1) "center across both margins"
>>>> (2) "center on page across both margins"
>>>> (3) "center a wide table" / "center a wide graphic"
>>>>
>>> It should be clear that this option is only used when the image is too
>>> wide.
>>>
>>> If you want to implement this, you need to detect when an image is too
>>> wide.. How do you plan to dot that ?
>>
>> I was not planning on doing that. I was thinking that in many cases
>> the user knows when it is too large and would manually set this
>> option. There has been some very preliminary discussion (in the email
>> thread on the GSoC horizontal scrollbar project) of parsing the log
>> for specific overfull hboxes; but I do not think it makes sense to
>> automatically detect this and set \centerline without the user
>> knowing.
>>
>> Scott
>
> Usually we center images by centering the paragraph. This would then be
> another option that would confuse people, and I'm not overly enthusiastic
> about adding another option for a rare case that the user should try to
> avoid in the first place.

Makes sense. A module would be a solution if someone wanted this
built-in. Otherwise, I will forget about it.

Scott

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