I tried the example in Lyx documentation. I'm using 1.2.0a under cygwin and
it works perfectly. Another way to do this is using a minipages wide enough
to coexist in the same line with your figure.
Eugenio
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Levon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: Try again...flowing text around images (floatflt)
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 11:10:30AM -0500, Praedor Tempus wrote:
>
> > Could someone please inform me as to the requirements to get floatflt to
work
> > in lyx-1.2.0? I ran into a difficulty with it when trying to write a
grant
> > and ended up having to use another wordprocessor because I simply could
not
> > get lyx to flow text around an image.
> >
> > I had an ps image/figure I was trying to insert into my document. I
looked
> > at the extended help for lyx and read about floatflt. I added
> > "\usepackage{floatflt}" to my document's preamble (it was the only
entry).
> > I then entered a tex command before the ps image:
> > "\begin{floatingfigure}[r]{3cm}" then used insert->graphics to insert my
ps
> > image. I followed the ps image with another tex command:
> > "\end{floatingfigure}". The ps image displayed in lyx but when I
printed out
> > the document or previewed a postscript image of the doc, the place in
the
> > paragraph where the image should have been was simply taken up with a
blank
> > line separating the sentence within which the above tex commands were
placed.
> > No image, no text flowing around it.
> >
> > Am I leaving something out to get this to work? The document was merely
a
> > Standard document. Nothing fancy, no enumerations, nothing. It is too
late
> > to make use of floatflt for this grant but for future grants, I would
like to
> > be able to use lyx. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> The example in the LyX docs works for you right ? I don't believe I did
> anything specialat all, in fact I pretty much followed the recipe you
> give above ...
>
> Hopefully for 1.2.2 we will have a nice way of doing this, if Dekel
> resurrects his patch
>
> regards
> john
> --
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