On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 1:05 AM, Christian Ridderström <c...@lyx.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 at 02:55, Joel Kulesza <jkule...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> One preference not shown (because it is not available), but that I'd love >> to have: default alignment of inserted figures: center. >> > > I would also really like a preference or other method to reduce the > manual/repeated work I do in order to get inserted figure floats to be > centered. > > In practice I've often ended up copying/pasting another float to reduce > the repeated work. So perhaps a practical approach is to add a "templates > branch" to the document and there create your custom figure float that you > the copy. > That is precisely the reason I'd like to see such a preference. Copying/pasting is generally what I do to fix it. Making a branch in an otherwise simple document seems like too much overkill for what seems to me like a logical LyX / document setting preference. On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 1:05 AM, Christian Ridderström <c...@lyx.org> wrote: > But perhaps this topic should be in a thread of its own as there are many > ways to solve it, eg: (... opt. preference that ....) > - ... make figure insets centered by default > - ... make figure insets by default use the alignment setting of figure > inset just above > - Custom/local templates that lets you insert a complete figure float, so > you easily can get a float with eg: centered figure, figure inser width at > 100% column etc, a short figure caption, a long figure caption, label etc. > I'd be happy to discuss in a new thread. In the meantime, see: https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8665 . Note that, to your third bullet, the figure settings / groups might solve some issues for things like default widths.
