Re: How to get rid of excessive vertical whitespace
On 06/16/2012 02:25 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Roger Houserho...@sonic.net 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 Thanks to Liviu Andronic, Les Denham, and Allen Barker for your help with my vertical whitespace issue. Using negative spacing helped, but it turned out that the key was to insert an explicit page break, and just before it add positive vertical spacing./ Roger House
Re: How to get rid of excessive vertical whitespace
On 06/16/2012 02:25 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Roger Houserho...@sonic.net 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 Thanks to Liviu Andronic, Les Denham, and Allen Barker for your help with my vertical whitespace issue. Using negative spacing helped, but it turned out that the key was to insert an explicit page break, and just before it add positive vertical spacing./ Roger House
Re: How to get rid of excessive vertical whitespace
On 06/16/2012 02:25 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Roger House<rho...@sonic.net> 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 Thanks to Liviu Andronic, Les Denham, and Allen Barker for your help with my vertical whitespace issue. Using negative spacing helped, but it turned out that the key was to insert an explicit page break, and just before it add positive vertical spacing./ Roger House
How to get rid of excessive vertical whitespace
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. 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.) I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to prevent the layout shown above. Thank you, Roger House
How to get rid of excessive vertical whitespace
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. 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.) I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to prevent the layout shown above. Thank you, Roger House
How to get rid of excessive vertical whitespace
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. 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.) I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to prevent the layout shown above. Thank you, Roger House
