On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:25:52 +0200
racoon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some wide figures and tables that don't fit on a portrait page.
Your afterpage solution sounds good to me, but that sounds like
strongarming a symptom rather than fixing the root cause. The root
cause is using anything, in a book, that is wider than a small phone
turned sideways. The days we could assume a 20" screen (or letter or a4
paper) are gone, and with them, the use of tables, and big
complex diagrams or pictures.
Isn't there a way you could refactor your tables to make them into
several skinny tables? Also, with complex graphics, is there a way to
present the full picture in miniature, with clickable areas to bring up
sub-pictures? I know I can do this with html+svg, and it would be very
handy with LyX too.
What I try to do these days, with new construction, is to make try to
make sure nothing I use is more than 300 to 500 pixels wide. By
filtering the big stuff out at the authoring stage, I don't need to
jump through hoops at the publishing stage.
SteveT
Steve Litt
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