Mehrdad wrote:
Hallo All
I am really frustrated, and in lack of time!
Ok I am using lyx to write my thesis, following are my document settings and
preambles:
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Floar Placement: here definitely
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Now I have following problems, my images end up sometime creating huge gaps
between image and paragraph etc.
My paraghraps spaces are not formatted nicely
Hard to say why without seeing the document, but this often happens when
there are many figures and little text. And especially if the "here -
definitely" option is used.
Think about how page breaking works:
When there is lots of room on a page (but not enough for a float), the
float goes to the next page. Without "here - definitely", text you typed
after that float is allowed to go before it to fill the big gap on that
page. But with "here - definitely", the rest of the page have to remain
empty because the float _must_ print bnefore the text that follows it.
So that setting is usually a recipe for disaster, it creates half-filled
pages. Now combine this with how each page is laid out. The empty space
between paragraphs (and between list items) is stretched so that the
first paragraph is at the top of the page, and the last paragraph ends
at the bottom. This makes books look better, as all pages end at exactly
the same height. But this only works well if the gaps don't get too big
- which they will when there is very little text to go on the page.
The fix is to let the floats float. Use cross references for referring
to them, in case they move a page or two away.
Also, some people write a draft first and then fill in with more text
later. A draft with little text but all the figures will tend to look
really bad. Once you get more text in between the floats, things will
look much better.
Documents with more illustrations than text is hard to make in LyX.
Using "page of floats" might help - it avoids mixing floats and text on
the same page.
And things like small skip medium skip etc is most of the time totally
ignored.
What exactly are you trying to achieve with skips? If you insert a skip
where a bigger gap is present already, then nothing happens. As it should.
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Further I have attached one of these missformated images, plus its tex code.
One more thing I use both eps and jpg images in my text.
Please attach a file, or use a link if the files are too big for the
list. Badly rendered pages can be shown with a .dvi or .pdf file.
Mixing jpeg and eps is not a problem for page breaking. Jpeg files
sometimes has problems with low resolution when printed though.
Helge Hafting
