On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 11:10:30AM -0500, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> Could someone please inform me as to the requirements to get floatflt to work
> in lyx-1.2.0? I ran into a difficulty with it when trying to write a grant
> and ended up having to use another wordprocessor because I simply could not
> get lyx to flow text around an image.
>
> I had an ps image/figure I was trying to insert into my document. I looked
> at the extended help for lyx and read about floatflt. I added
> "\usepackage{floatflt}" to my document's preamble (it was the only entry).
> I then entered a tex command before the ps image:
> "\begin{floatingfigure}[r]{3cm}" then used insert->graphics to insert my ps
> image. I followed the ps image with another tex command:
> "\end{floatingfigure}". The ps image displayed in lyx but when I printed out
> the document or previewed a postscript image of the doc, the place in the
> paragraph where the image should have been was simply taken up with a blank
> line separating the sentence within which the above tex commands were placed.
> No image, no text flowing around it.
>
> Am I leaving something out to get this to work? The document was merely a
> Standard document. Nothing fancy, no enumerations, nothing. It is too late
> to make use of floatflt for this grant but for future grants, I would like to
> be able to use lyx. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The example in the LyX docs works for you right ? I don't believe I did
anything specialat all, in fact I pretty much followed the recipe you
give above ...
Hopefully for 1.2.2 we will have a nice way of doing this, if Dekel
resurrects his patch
regards
john
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