On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:50:28PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > see http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4647 > > I begun to create a dialog (see attached). Question to LateX experts: > are those options mutually exclusive? Can you think of other useful options? > > Ideally those options will also be available in a caption context menu.
Abdel, I think that you still don't get what the problem is here. Captions should be customizable by layout files, i.e., you should be able to adapt them to the way the class defines them. This goal was perfectly accomplished when the caption was an environment, and it should return to be an environment, IMO. There may be many different captions. Normal captions and continued captions are only two possibilities. For example, I came across classes that used \sidecaption. This kind of caption manages to put its text on the side of a picture (left or right). Some classes may define \captionbelow or \captionabove, such that they can put the right amount of space around the caption. Then, you should be able to set the label in bold, or the text in small size and italics, or... and you should do all of this depending on the class, not through a context menu. Making the caption an uncostomizable inset was a BIG mistake. -- Enrico
