On Sunday 06 November 2005 22:19, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Matthew Gates wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I started using LyX some time ago for stuff like letters and my CV. > > Recently I started a rather bigger project - the Stellarium User > > Guide. Everything's going pretty well, and I've learnt a lot about > > stuff like using bibtex and how to make indexes with sub-items etc. > > All good. > > > > But there are a couple of problems I can't work out. > > > > I get errors in pagination. Some of my pages have stuff that goes > > over the page number and even below it off the bottom of the page! > > Exactly what happens seems to depend on where my figures and tables > > get put. I have quite a few images which are all in floats, and a > > fair few tables - also in floats. It seems that when the large > > floats get put near to one another I get the error. It can be seen > > most clearly on page 9 of the PDF version. > > > > Anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong? > > > > http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/index.php?pgid=stellarium_user_guide > > > > Matthew > > Don't know that you are doing anything wrong. I downloaded your source > tarball. The document displays correctly as DVI and PDF (dvipdfm), but > the pagination is hosed using PDF (pdflatex). So maybe you're doing > something very subtly wrong, maybe there's a glitch in pdflatex, or > maybe the planet's are simply not in alignment (sorry, couldn't > resist). > Anyway, as a work-around you might consider using dvipdfm to generate > the PDF file. > > Paul
Thanks for looking at it. There's something very curious going on... I get the problem with DVI as well as PDF---preview using control-D still has the problem.
