Kamran Hameed wrote:
Folks i am newbie to LyX. I want to ask that how can we arrange 2 pics in a
row rather arranging them vertically. They way i am doing it right now is
that I go to the Insert->Float->Figure
Then in the the figure i insert a graphic.. and repeat the same task for
every picture. Now this gets the pictures arranged in vertical order. How
can i place them horizontalyy in one line and caption them powerfully
Have a look at Section 4.6.1.1 of the User Guide. You insert figure
floats inside the figure float to create subfigures (with separate
captions). Whether they appear side by side or one above the other
depends on whether you insert a line break between them. Alignment is
handled pretty much the same way it would be for text. You can insert
space between the subfloats if you need to.
Secondly, how can resize pictures
Right-click on the inserted image and select "Settings". That brings up
a dialog that will let you scale, fix height and/or width, clip and rotate.
and move them freely like we do in Ms Word
or other softwares
Brace yourself for a religious debate here: what you see is
(approximately) what you get (Word and its siblings) versus what you see
is what you mean (LyX and most other LaTeX-based programs). Rather than
rehashing many, many posts to that effect, I'll point you to a Wikipedia
entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM) and note that there's a
searchable archive of this list at GMANE (http://search.gmane.org/ --
set the group to gmane.editors.lyx.general and search for, say, "whyisym
Word"). Basically, the LaTeX way is either to (a) embed a figure
directly in the text (no float) and take your chances with how the page
layout ends up, or (b) embed it in a float and take your chances on
where the float ends up. You do have some control over float placement:
right-click the handle of the float, pick "Settings" and you'll see a
list of placement options, most of which should be viewed as suggestions
to LaTeX rather than absolute dicta.
/Paul
