On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 13:47, Mancapa, Vusisizwe (_) (Summerstrand Campus North) wrote: > Hi > > My name is Vusie, I'm currently learning Lyx,I wish to write my thesis > using Lyx. > > To do that I need to be able to place very neat looking block diagrams, > Lyx is very good with everything else but this. Will someone help me > with placing diagrams in your document. > > > > Vusie.
Hi,
you can in principle position a figure float (which contains the diagram
graphic) anywhere on the page. Press the right mouse within the float
and you will get a pop-up menu for placement.
LyX, or rather LaTeX, will *try* to place the float according to this
instruction. It is not very good however especially if the graphics are
large. You can make placement more predictable by adding to your
preamble
\renewcommand\floatpagefraction{.9}
\renewcommand\topfraction{.9}
\renewcommand\bottomfraction{.9}
\renewcommand\textfraction{.2}
Hope this helps.
(I assume that you have found Dia for creating your diagrams)
- Martin
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