Hi Wolfgang,
I also prefer having the fontsize in figures equal to that of the surrounding
text.
> > If the special flag was set you encountered a bug, either in xfig,
> > fig2dev or in LyX. Otherwise just set the flag, and the text should be
> > typeset by LaTeX.
>
> How does xfig find out the size and font I used in the document, or does it
> make latex take it over?
To do that, you really need the "special" flag switched on for strings in
xfig. If you did not do it in your xfig files, you can change it quite
efficiently using "update" functionality in xfig gui, or by a script on raw
xfig file format. All strings are terminated by \001 so it is easy to detect
them and the special flag is just one of the numbers in front of the text. Do
not remember which one, you can easily find it out by diffing two files, one
with and one without the special flag.
As a second step, redefine latex macro SetFigFont in the preamble:
either
\gdef\SetFigFont#1#2#3#4#5{\relax}
or
\gdef\SetFigFontNFSS#1#2#3#4#5{\relax}
depending on the xfig version. Check one of your .pdftex_t file which version
is used in it.
Then, all texts will be typeset by the active font in latex.
Hope this helps,
Vasek
