Theo wrote:
Hi,
i know this has been asked a thousand times and i've read many threads, but stil
can't get it to work:
i want to import images into lyx.
- i have to use "insert figure float" first
- insert into that box "insert graphics", right?
- i dont want the image to float and i dont want the title ("Figure#") to be
centered. it should be left aligned.
- how do i make a image description?
do i just write below the image with "Standard" selected?
You don't have to use a figure float to insert an image,
particularly not if you don't want the image to float.
You can insert->graphichs directly into the document, if you wish.
The "figure float" provides floating (which you don't want) and
the Figure# caption.
Not using a float means the image appear exactly where you
put it, without a caption. (There are ways to get a caption
anyway if you like - but you'll need a few latex commands.)
The big disadvantage of this approach is if the image is big,
that is more than one line high, and appear so low down
on the page that there isn't room for it. If this happens,
lyx will put the non-floating image on the next page, leaving you
with an ugly page that have a lot of vertical white space at the bottom.
(Or perhaps that vertical white space is spread out inbetween headings
and list items on that page, which is also ugly when there's a lot of it.)
Floating images avoids this. When a floating image move to the
next page, the text appearing after the float in your document
will be used to fill the ugly gap at the bottom of the current page.
You can easily prevent an image from floating _far_ away from
where you want it - click on the float and check the "Here, definitely"
checkbox. Such a float will never move far, but it will move in those
cases where you otherwise would get a very bad page break.
Otherwise, such images appear exactly where you put them.
Note that you can easily use crossreferencing to correctly refer to
a floating image even when it moves to another page.
Lyx will automatically generate texts like
"figure 17 on the next page" for you. If later editing cause
the float to appear on the same page as the reference, then the
reference text will automatically change to "figure 17" without the
"next page" part. This is fully automatic, you don't need to do a thing
to make the references come out right. Other than inserting them
in the first place, of course.
Helge Hafting
