On 2017-02-18, Marshall Feldman wrote: Dear Marshall,
> I just finished laying out my first floating figure with subfloats (in a > 2x2 matrix). But to get it to work the way I want, I had to use ERT, and > I'm wondering if this is really necessary. If it is necessary, then > consider this a feature request for LyX to do this automatically. > First, some background. I'm using the Memoir class, which has its own > methods for handling floats and captions (see Ch. 10 of the Memoir > Manual <http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf>). But > they stopped working as soon as I started using subfloats in LyX. After > about a day (!) of detective work, I learned that LyX automatically > invokes the subfig <https://www.ctan.org/pkg/subfig?lang=en> package, > which in turn automatically invokes the caption > <https://www.ctan.org/pkg/caption> package. > Since the latter conflicts > with Memoir's methods, Memoir is smart enough to turn off its own > methods if the caption package is loaded. But LyX doesn't warn you about > this, much less do something about it, and I did not see documentation > of this conflict anywhere. At the very least, I'd like to see this > documented. This is a valid (and simple) feature request. Could you post it (with a telling subject line) on the LyX bug tracker? Do you have a suggestion where to document this? > Even better, if the Memoir class is being used, provide some > option to allow the user to choose between Memoir's native captioning > and that of the caption package. ... or just use the native captioning... Another valid feature request. > Possibly a similar conflict exists between subfig and the newer (and to > my mind easier-to-use) subcaption <https://www.ctan.org/pkg/subcaption> > package. Again, I'd like to see better documentation and options for > handling this explicitly, rather than letting users first fail to > compile their documents as expected, due to conflicts between their > method of choice and LyX's hidden side-effects, and then have to track > down the problem and fix it (which in my case eventually meant having no > choice but to use subfig and caption). (BTW, why doesn't LyX use the > more recent subcaption package instead of subfig?) A third feature request: "support the subcaption package". > In any case, here's how I want my figure to look. Each subfigure panel > is labeled with a letter in parentheses, both boldface. (E.g., "*(a)*".) > The main figure itself is labeled the usual way, except "Figure," the > number, and the separator are bold-faced (e.g., "*Figure 1:* "). Then, > immediately following this, there's a short cation to be used in the > list of figures. The identical text then appears boldfaced at the start > of the long caption, ending with a period. This is the visible figure > title. Immediately after this comes the rest of a long, paragraph-like > caption discussing the four panels in relation to each other. This long > caption makes repeated reference to the subfigure captions, and each > reference is set in the same font as the caption itself (in this case > boldface). > I was able to do most of this by using the caption/subfig commands > \DeclareSubrefFormat and \captionsetup in the preamble. But the repeated > short caption (figure title) had to be copied, pasted, period added, and > boldfaced. And the references in the long caption needed to be done with > ERT, such as"\textbf{\protect\subref{subfig:MVpct}}" where subfig:MVpct > is the label used for a panel's subfigure caption. Nothing I tried with > LyX would make this work as desired, so I resorted to ERT. Please provide a *minimal* example file. (Leave out everything non-standard except the memoir class from the preamble and everything not required to show the problem expect 2 sub-figures + references.) Günter
