On 17/04/2018 21:12, Steve Litt wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:25:52 +0200
racoon <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I have some wide figures and tables that don't fit on a portrait page.
Your afterpage solution sounds good to me, but that sounds like
strongarming a symptom rather than fixing the root cause. The root
cause is using anything, in a book, that is wider than a small phone
turned sideways. The days we could assume a 20" screen (or letter or a4
paper) are gone, and with them, the use of tables, and big
complex diagrams or pictures. >
Isn't there a way you could refactor your tables to make them into
several skinny tables? Also, with complex graphics, is there a way to
present the full picture in miniature, with clickable areas to bring up
sub-pictures? I know I can do this with html+svg, and it would be very
handy with LyX too.
What I try to do these days, with new construction, is to make try to
make sure nothing I use is more than 300 to 500 pixels wide. By
filtering the big stuff out at the authoring stage, I don't need to
jump through hoops at the publishing stage.
Unfortunately, it is hard to break down my diagram without loosing some
of the representation that makes it easier to grasp the information it
contains. Same with the tables. Cutting them down makes it harder to
comprehend them.
Concerning the phone: I guess, given my limitations, the afterpage
solution is better than LyX's default sideways float solution since the
phone can then be turned sideways to read the sideways page which offers
more space. So maybe LyX should have an extended feature for this.
