Re: How to change the default setting of inserting a graph?
(please reply to the list, too) On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Zhaorong Wang wrote: > Hi Liviu, > Now I understand! It is an awesome solution, even if the groups will > no longer exist after I exit lyx. > I cannot reproduce this. After saving the document and restarting LyX, the groups that are associated with at least one image are still present in the document. > Thank you so so much! > Another question is, when I set the graph to be 100% page width, > actually I want it to be centered > To centre a graph within a float you need to explicitly change the paragraph alignment to 'centre'. In this case Helge's solution could very well complement mine: when in need of a subsequent figure float, copy/paste an existing one, click on the image and change the file name. This way you will have kept all the settings of the original figure float. > and occupy all the page width. But > it turns out to start at the left boundary of text, not the rim of the > page. So actually the graph exceeds the right boundary a little bit. > Is there any options I can use to alter it? Or maybe I'd better to set > the graph to be the text width. But sometimes I just want to make a > large resolution graph as big as possible on the page. And usually > some figures, for example generated by Matlab already have blank > margins. It waste some display space if it start from the left margin > of the page. Refer to the attachment. Thanks! > I'm not sure what exactly you're aiming for, but I would suggest that you experiment with the various 'width' options available (for example, in addition to 'page' and 'text' you also have 'line width %'; you may check Help > User's Guide for more info on this), keeping in mind that you can specify '100 Page Width %', as well as '130 Page Width %' or '70 Page Width %'. See what works best in your case. Regards Liviu
Re: How to change the default setting of inserting a graph?
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Zhaorong Wang wrote: > I don't think I understand your solution. But thank you all the same :) > You could: - insert figure - change width to be as wide as the text width - go to the 'LaTeX and LyX options' tab - 'Open new group' and insert a grp name - then, when inserting new figure, use 'right-click' on newly inserted figure and make it belong to the group that you've just created. It will re-use the settings (bar the image file name) of the first figure. Let me know if this makes more sense. Liviu
Re: How to change the default setting of inserting a graph?
On 15. aug. 2011 07:44, Zhaorong Wang wrote: Dear lyx users, I am using lyx 2.0 on windows 7. I just keep lyx as simple editor of writing progress report every week. Often I need to insert figures, but the figures usually have different original size. Lyx seems to insert graphs using their original size as default. But sometimes big figure even exceeds the right boundary of the page. Then I need to make it smaller manually through the graph dialog box. So I want to change the default to be like as wide as the text width. How can I do in the preamble? I am simply using the document class "article". Thanks for any help! There is no "default settings" for new figures. But here is a timesaver: Make a template document for "progress reports". Include a figure in the template, which have all the correct settings. (Such as width=100% of line length). When you want to write a report, you use "File->New from template" When you need the figure, you just change the filename in the template figure, instead of adding a new figure. This is less work than first adding a figure and then setting the width. If you need more figures, just copy the first one and change the filename in the copy. If a report doesn't need a figure, delete the one provided by the template. A template can of course have other non-default document settings set up the way you want your reports to be too. Helge Hafting
Re: How to change the default setting of inserting a graph?
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Zhaorong Wang wrote: > Dear lyx users, > I am using lyx 2.0 on windows 7. I just keep lyx as simple editor of > writing progress report every week. Often I need to insert figures, > but the figures usually have different original size. Lyx seems to > insert graphs using their original size as default. But sometimes big > figure even exceeds the right boundary of the page. Then I need to > make it smaller manually through the graph dialog box. So I want to > change the default to be like as wide as the text width. How can I do > in the preamble? I am simply using the document class "article". > I don't know if you can alter the defaults in this case, but you could do the following: when inserting the figure go to the 'LyX options' tab and change the 'Scale on Screen' as desired, then 'Open new group' and insert a grp name. Afterwards use 'right-click' on newly inserted figure and use this group via the checkbox. Liviu
How to change the default setting of inserting a graph?
Dear lyx users, I am using lyx 2.0 on windows 7. I just keep lyx as simple editor of writing progress report every week. Often I need to insert figures, but the figures usually have different original size. Lyx seems to insert graphs using their original size as default. But sometimes big figure even exceeds the right boundary of the page. Then I need to make it smaller manually through the graph dialog box. So I want to change the default to be like as wide as the text width. How can I do in the preamble? I am simply using the document class "article". Thanks for any help! -- Cheers, Zhaorong Wang "Our first endeavors are purely instinctive prompting of an imagination vivid and undisciplined. As we grow older reason asserts itself and we become more and more systematic and designing. But those early impulses, though not immediately productive, are of the greatest moment and may shape our very destinies." —Nikola Tesla
