Thanks. That worked well. However, it still shows up in Lyx as left
aligned. Is there some way to grab the graphics in Lyx to do something like
for styles? For example, for styles I know I can
Style Chapter
Align Left
End
But is there a way to instead grab any graphics object?
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Chris Rackauckas
University of California, Irvine
Department of Mathematics
www.chrisrackauckas.com
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote:
> Chris Rackauckas <m...@chrisrackauckas.com> writes:
>
> > Centering the graphics in floats automatically is easy: Just add
> > \usepackage{floatrow}
> > to the preamble. I just made a module that does this and it's a quick fix
> > to everything. However, for this lab notebook I am making, I want to
> > quickly add graphics and not worry about having to center them or put
> them
> > into floats (and all of the formatting jazz that goes with it).
>
> I had a similar question, and I =rmember that I redifined the
> \includegraphics - but I don't remember any details anymore.
>
> See e.g. the thread "Re: Search and replace within figure settings?" in
> this group for an example on how to include always a shadowbox - this
> could be easily changed to center the included graphics.
>
> Here the relevant extract:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> %%%%%%%%
> % from
> %
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/70547/how-can-i-renew-includegraphics-to-always-use-shadowbox
> \usepackage{graphicx,fancybox,letltxmacro}
> % save the meaning of \includegraphics
> \LetLtxMacro\latexincludegraphics\includegraphics
> % pass the image to \shadowbox
> \renewcommand{\includegraphics}[2][]{%
> \shadowbox{\latexincludegraphics[#1]{#2}}}
> %%%%%%%%
>
> In addition, I used the following in the preamble to make the graphics
> always centered:
>
> \renewenvironment{figure}[1][]{
> \@float{figure}
> \centering}
> {\end@float}
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
> >
> > _________________________________________________
> > Chris Rackauckas
> > University of California, Irvine
> > Department of Mathematics
> > www.chrisrackauckas.com
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:40 PM, James Sutherland <
> > james.sutherl...@chemeng.utah.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> Better yet, why doesn't LyX center graphics (at least in floats) by
> >> default? It centers captions by default, so why not graphics? This
> >> inconsistency has long annoyed me...
> >>
> >> James
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Chris Rackauckas <
> m...@chrisrackauckas.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>> I am trying to create a modification that will center all graphics
> >>> automatically. How would I go about doing this? I tried
> >>> adding \usepackage{floatrow} to the LaTeX preamble but this only
> centers
> >>> graphics put into floats. Any ideas?
> >>> _________________________________________________
> >>> Chris Rackauckas
> >>> University of California, Irvine
> >>> Department of Mathematics
> >>> www.chrisrackauckas.com
> >>>
> >>
> >>
>
> --
> Rainer M. Krug
> email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de
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