On Tuesday 22 January 2002 10:47 am, Herbert Voss wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > So, I'd change nothing in the dialog in this regard. > > > > Instead, I think we should ask what functionality the dialog should really > > end up having. My thoughts: > > > > Support the optional arguments of includegraphics to specify a section of the > > original figure. > > > > Rotate the image. > > > > Scale the image both on screen and in the output document. > > > > I think that's everything. Do you agree? > > But what a user does is one of the following: > > choosing the right size of an image is sometimes difficult, > because it depends to the layout. So I choose sometimes > scale, sometimes width/height. It may be a good idea, > to save all variables, so that switching between the > different modes with the oroginal values for scale, > width/height is possible. > > Creating a good layout of paper is often like a > longwinding road: try this, try that, a.s.o
Sure. What I was trying to say was that somehow the user should be able to rotate the figure, scale it and chose only a part of it. Moreover, the image size in LyX should be specifiable independent of that in the paper output. This is more than the dialog currently supports. Fancy designing it? Angus
