1) put 2 figures side by side? I am writing a proposal and I am limited by the number of pages I can send... Thus, I would like to have figures side by side. How it looks is important but space is even more!
Also, my caption is always larger than my figure so 2) how can tell Lyx to constrain the text body to the width of my
figure?
Use a figure float, insert two images into it (the images can be separated by some HFill), and activate the option 'Subfigure' in the tab 'Extra options' of the image dialog.
For better understanding, I attached a small example LyX-file. As you can see under the second image (in pdf), the caption is automatically constrained to the image width.
regards Uwe
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 221 \textclass scrartcl \language ngerman \inputencoding auto \fontscheme ae \graphics default \float_placement h \paperfontsize 12 \spacing single \papersize a4paper \paperpackage widemarginsa4 \use_geometry 0 \use_amsmath 1 \use_natbib 0 \use_numerical_citations 0 \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 5 \tocdepth 4 \paragraph_separation skip \defskip medskip \quotes_language polish \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle empty \bullet 1 1 34 -1 \end_bullet \bullet 2 2 35 -1 \end_bullet \bullet 3 2 7 -1 \end_bullet
\layout Standard
\align center
\begin_inset Float figure
wide false
collapsed true
\layout Standard
\hfill
\begin_inset Graphics
filename /cygdrive/d/USti/Bilder/Kreise.jpg
subcaption
subcaptionText "jpg"
\end_inset
\hfill
\begin_inset Graphics
filename /cygdrive/d/USti/Bilder/Kreise.bmp
subcaption
subcaptionText "bmp"
\end_inset
\hfill
\layout Caption
Kreise
\end_inset
\the_end
2BilderFloat.pdf
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