Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks, Rich. Xfig is also able to produce eps pictures. I am using > "insert-->external material" because I would like to have things like > $\delta$ (LaTeX code) displayed over the picture, in the dvi file, as > LaTeX would output it, i.e., showing the Greek letter and not the LaTeX > code. In short, with "insert-->external material" and Xfig, it is > possible to combine LaTeX code with pictures. I think it would be easy > for the developers to implement a figure dialog box to scale pictures > included with "insert-->external material", likewise it already happens > with the importation of an usual graphic file, as, internally, it seems > that LyX includes the picture with the usual command \includegraphics.
Ha! Easy! It took three months of quite intensive thought and coding to do so. Anyway, this being a 1.4.x feature, it isn't much use to you. You will need to use some ERT. <ert> $$Resize $$Rotate </ert> <external inset> ... </external inset> <ert> }} </ert> $$Resize is \scalebox{0.5}{0.5}{ or \resizebox{<width>}{<height>}{ where <width> and <height> are latex lengths (2cm, 20em, etc) or an exclamation mark meaning keep the aspect ratio consistent with the other scaling. $$Rotate is \rotatebox[<origin>]{<angle>}{ where <origin> is some combo of default (centre) t top b bottom B baseline together with l left (default) c centre r right and <angle> is in degrees. -- Angus