Op 16-5-2013 22:15, Uwe Stöhr schreef:
Dear colleagues,
we often discussed in the past about the default paragraph alignment
for new floats. We had the discussion in Milano as well because this
is one of the most annoying things for many users. We voted to do
something.
That's the real politics. Voting to do something, but not deciding on
what we're going to do.
The question is now how. Here is my proposal:
- we add a document-wide setting where th user can set how he wants to
have new floats
- this is a document setting not a LyX preference because different
documents may require different settings.
Hmm.. A document setting that doesn't say anything about the document,
but just how LyX interacts with it. That doesn't feel right. I think the
change tracking setting is already annoying enough. Why do you think
different documents require different settings ? Either you like them
centered, or not. Maybe this could be related to different document
classes, but then the document classes should dictate what the default
alignment is.
* is the caption below the image/table or above (For example the
common typesetting rule is that figure captions are below while table
captions are above. Getting this right for every float is currently a
pain.)
Any idea how you're going to enforce this setting in LyX ?
* the alignment of the paragraph in new floats
I'd rather see that the new floats get set a "default alignment". And a
document setting to change the default of all existing floats. I will
probably not remember to do this every time I start a new document
before the first float I insert.
Setting this for each and every document over and over again becomes
just as annoying as it is now. I usually don't write 100 page documents
anymore, so the average number of floats per document is not that big
nowadays.
Opinions, further proposals?
I'm afraid this will be too late for 2.1. This will probably light up
some discussion, and it will take time to figure out what we're going to
do exactly.
Vincent
