Dave Jarvis wrote: > The book "Entanglement" by Amir D. Aczel does exactly the style that I > want. He references his images beforehand and sacrifices a bit of > whitespace at the bottom of the page if the images do not fit nicely. > However, the text is always flush with the graphic. > > And, as I mentioned, I can use the default margins to get exactly the > behaviour that I want. As soon as I tweak the margins, though, the > vertical spacing goes haywire. > > Surely there's a way to do this in LyX or (La)TeX? As I said, it seems as if the margins can't really be the problem. You're probably just getting lucky with the default margins. But I suppose it is possible that you're seeing some weird interaction between the geometry package, which is what LyX uses to control page sizing, and the float placement mechanisms. You might try using one of the koma-script classes and the scrpage2 package. You'd have to set page size manually, in the preamble, to do that. There are probably other ways to handle margins as well.
The other option is to get real familiar with LaTeX page layout and float placement. I'm no expert on this. In fact, I never use floats---I'm a philosopher---so haven't had any reason to study it. But there is a good treatment in the /LaTeX Companion/. You might also just try the "here if possible" setting and see how close that gets you. Oh, and you might try putting "\raggedbottom" in ERT right at the beginning of your document. This will allow the bottoms of pages not to line up. That they do, by default, is why you're seeing lots of whitespace in the middle of the page. Richard -- ================================================================== Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://bobjweil.com/heck/ ================================================================== Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
