Martin A. Hansen wrote: > that is too bad. i really should say that latex ought to be the best > application to calculate the height of the caption - so i can fit the > image-float on a page without overshooting anything. > > perhaps one could do a hack with some ERT?
Probably. I'd suggest to ask the LaTeX experts on the comp.text.tex newsgroup for a pure LaTeX solution. Then present it here and somebody might be able to tell you how this can be adapted to LyX. Georg