M-L wrote:
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As an aside to do with the footer:
Setting my bottom margin: <Document-->Settings=Page Margins-->Bottom to 6
Here is my footer preamble [you'll need to insert your own graphic file, in my
case it's a .jpg file of a tawny frogmouth] on my footer experimental
document:
\usepackage{graphics}\rfoot{\resizebox{60pt}{!}
{\includegraphics{/home/charlie/Wildlife/tawny-egwsg.jpg}}}
\lfoot{\bf \large \scshape this was\\fine as well}
\cfoot{\bf \large \scshape did this\\and it was fine}
The tawny frogmouth graphic sits a bit high as you can see in the attached
pic. Not a problem, just something I haven't as yet worked out how to fix. I
don't like bothering the list.
It is okay to ask questions on the list! That is one of the lists
purposes. People making demands or complaining loudly sometimes makes
themselves unpopular, but "how do I do that?" is fine.
When you use \includegraphic, the bottom edge of the picture
aligns with the text baseline. (Most letters sits on top of the
baseline, a few, like j and g extends under it.)
There are quite a few ways to change that. A simple one is to
put the image inside a \raisebox command. Raise by a negative length
to get the image lower down. Some experimentation may be necessary to
get it just right.
In some cases, one wants to line the image up so it matches something
else. Such as another image or a table. In such cases, put the
image inside a box (\parbox or \minipage). Such boxes can be aligned
in various ways: top alignment, bottom alignment, middle alignment.
You can usually get what you want, but it is not always trivial.
LyX now comes with a file named "EmbeddedObjects.lyx", which
you can find from the help menu. It demonstrates lots of box stuff,
as well as the \raisebox trick. You can also find examples on the net.
Helge Hafting
