kevin rennert wrote: > > Hey all, > > I stopped using lyx when I switched to gentoo, causing me to forcibly > upgrade to lyx-1.2.x . I ran into the same problem that someone else > (probably many someone else-s) recently posted about getting latex > errors when processing figures inside figure floats. > > The short answer does seem to be that you have to hit a carriage return > at the end of the caption to ensure that the figure doesn't get placed > inside the caption (thereby generating the latex error), but this would > seem to imply that you then have no choice but to have the caption > placed above the figure. Is there any way around this? > > Is there anything I can do to help solve this bug (including > programming) ? No need for programming. There are two ways: 1. As you described, getting the caption above. 2. Press enter _first_, insert figure, then move down to the empty caption and write something appropriate.
And if it went wrong somehow and you have a figure in the caption? Just change the paragraph containing the figure from "caption" to "standard". Then Create a new paragraph and change it type to caption and rewrite caption text. with luck, you may be able to split the caption paragraph such that you get the figure in one part and the caption text in another - no need for rewriting then, just set the appropriate types. Floats aren't all that special, paragraph types and editing works the same way inside as everywhere else in the text. you can have a "text float" if you want to. Note that some types (like section) won't work well in a float though. Helge Hafting
