> The problem is that the figure that is moved to the middle of the next
> page is not big enough to fill the whole page. This leaves gaps above
> and below.
> I experimented and found that a fairly small figure can be in this
> situation,
> that is, it won't fit on the current page because of another big figure
> above it.
> For a book, these large white spaces are not good.
> Surely Lyx could be modified to place the figure at the top of the next
> pagewith text below.
But this still comes down to being a latex behavior, not lyx. This is
partially ameliorated with floats. rtfm in tutorial and user's guide,
and also look at the picinpar package. Somwehere in those it tells you
how to tell latex to use more figures at the top and bottom.
Also, picinpar can wrap text around a single float per page. It can
try to wrap around more than one, but I find that it frequently loses
one of the floats (though it still assigns a figure number to it.
This too is a latex issue and not lyx, and I haven't found anyone who
knows how to work around it.
This kind of wrapping is the single thing that I've found that commercial
WP's do better. Better? they're the only thing that does it :)
rick
p.s. your mailer needs fixing; your lines are too long and get split
funny,
like this, when you go over. Your mailer should be set to wrap at 72
characters.
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