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Yes, but what about if I want to insert a few figures? I don't want to have them all bunched up one side of the page or to have a tiny bit of a paragraph show u
by almost 17y ago
Yes, but what about if I want to insert a few figures? I don't want to have them all bunched up one side of the page or to have a tiny bit of a paragraph show up before one or etc etc. I just want to say "put this figure here and this one here" but this is LaTeX so tough.
(I should add that I use and like LaTeX, it does let me produce beautiful documents from Emacs. But let's not pretend it's the answer to everyone's problems)
- nudded 17y ago\begin{figure}[h!] .. \end{figure} should insert the figure right where you typed this.
- dagw 17y agoShould, but often doesn't.
- Lewisham 17y ago...usually when you shouldn't have tried putting it there in the first place.
- Silhouette 17y agoSome people actually do know about proper graphic design and typesetting, and are capable of making an informed judgement in specific cases with better results than a generic mathematical algorithm. Unfortunately, neither LaTeX nor your flippant defence of its approach is helping those people.
- cema 17y agoHave you tried Lyx?
- scorchin 17y agoLyx is brilliant! It provides a GUI (not quite a WYSIWYG app) to LaTeX and provides all the nice exports you're likely to need. For those comes from a Word/OpenOffice background, using Lyx should be pretty intuitive.
- joe_the_user 17y agoDoes Lyx have an odt import feature? I'm not seeing it....
- merraksh 17y agoI don't want to have them all bunched up one side of the page Try \begin{center} \begin{figure}[ht] ... \end{figure} \end{center} Also, LaTeX usually does a good job in placing figures (which, in professionally typeset journals/books, appear at the top of a page), and overriding it with [h!] sometimes makes a document look less readable.
- merraksh 17y agoOops, that's supposed to be inside out: \begin{figure}[ht] \begin{center} ... \end{center} \end{figure} Not sure it works the way I first suggested. Apologies.
- joe_the_user 17y agoThis is my concern. I'm trying to lay out a full magazine with a number of graphics in Linux right now. I don't need WYSIWYG but I do need to be able to position graphics on a page and have the text "smartly" flow around it. I've been using Scribus. It's OK but a system where you tagged text and could edit it will a text edit would be nice.