On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Roger House <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using Lyx for the first time and find it, by and large, quite nice. > However, I've run into a situation where Lyx's automatic vertical layout > is creating ugly output. Example: > > input > text > small figure > caption > text > large figure (taking an entire page) > > output > PAGE BREAK > text > small figure > LOTS OF VERTICAL WHITESPACE > caption > LOTS OF VERTICAL WHITESPACE > text > PAGE BREAK > large figure (taking an entire page) > > I want a page break before the large figure, so that works fine. However > the > vertical whitespace is really unacceptable. > Yes, LaTeX can be generous with empty vertical space. One way to workaround is to insert negative vertical spaces right after the caption (or float). Just Insert > Formatting > Vertical Space and input a negative value (say -10 pt). This should help.
> I understand that the algorithm > is trying to spread things out uniformly in the vertical direction, but in > this case, I would like all the vertical whitespace to go away and just let > the printed portion of the page stop wherever it stops. (Also, the > whitespace > between the figure and the caption just seems plain wrong. I have the > caption > marked "Definitely here", but my idea of "here" does not seem to agree with > the way it works.) > See Section 11 of LyX Essentials [1] for some prose on this. The "Definitely here" pertains to the float placement, not caption placement. Liviu [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/tutorials/essentials/LyX_Essentials.pdf > I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to prevent the layout shown > above. > > Thank you, > > Roger House > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
