Lee Yeoh wrote:
Hmm... well I seem to have isolated the problem a little. I tried to
make an example file, and the text wrap worked perfectly this time... It
seems that if I have standard text following the float, then it will
display fine. Where I run into problems is when I use the itemise format.
• If I have itemised text in the next paragraph of the document, nothing
will be rendered.
• If I have even a single character of standard text either in the next
paragraph or immediately following the graphic in the same paragraph,
the image will render. The problem with this workaround is that the
itemised text does not wrap around this image.
Perhaps this is a bug with floatflt, but in any case, I've posted a zip
of an example lyx file, an image and the pdf output at this link:
http://web.netcall.com.au/tilde/wraptest.zip
You'll notice that even when the image appears (and by the way, where
did you get a picture of my ex-girlfriend?), the bullet text overwrites
it. This is a known bug/feature of floatflt, for which there is a
work-around (section 3.1 of the floatflt manual) that requires you to
replace \item commands with a customized version -- which I think
effectively requires you to set the bullet list in ERT <sigh>. I'm not
positive, but I think what you're encountering (which I reproduced here
with LyX 1.4.1 on Win XP) is another aspect of the same bug. You might
want to report it to the package author. The manual (a DVI file in the
docs/latex/floatflt folder under your main TeX installation) has contact
info.
One other question, does anyone know what all those blah.lyx~ files and
##blah.lyx## files are? I've just been deleting them...
blah.lyx~ is a backup file automatically created by LyX.
Tools->Preferences->Look and feel->User interface has a setting that
controls frequency and lets you turn this on or off. #blah.lyx# is, I
think, an on-the-fly temporary copy. I'm not sure what prompts LyX to
write it, but generally speaking I only find one left behind if LyX
exited abnormally.
/Paul
