Liviu Andronic wrote: > > I suppose I could use negative \vspace to compensate for that, but it's > > really annoying to have to do it for every picture and table. > > As you mentioned, you can use Insert > Vertical space with a negative > value around floats. You may also experiment with including the > negative vspace inside the float. As for defaults, you could > copy/paste the correctly spaced float every time you need one. > > Alternatively, you could go for something similar to the following: > command-sequence float-insert figure; escape; escape; break-paragraph; > inset-insert vspace -1cm
If the space is too big for you at every float, I'd rather change the spacing globally. Here is a list of the relevant parameters (\textfloatsep and friends): http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/squeeze.html HTH, Jürgen