On Mar 8, 2013, at 9:28 AM, James Sutherland wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann > <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote: > > This has always been a source of frustration to me. It seems like the > default behavior should be for the paragraph style in a float to be centered. > This should be for tables and figures. > > Is there any reason why the current behavior is favored over centering? > > James >
This question comes up frequently and multiple solutions have been offered, e.g. … http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/76613 I believe LyX just adopts the LaTeX default. But a nice feature request would be for a checkbox in LyX to center align items in floats.