Wrapped figure

[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,

I am not satisfied by the placement of wrapped figures:
Probably, because in one part of the document there is too many
figures compared to the text, there is some large spaces kept blank
on the side of the wrapped figures.

Is there any tip that I could use?
Actually, latex should just move the pictures a bit farther where there
are no more figures if it is the issue.

I use outer placement and allow floating, one column.
If I change for left or right of inner, the figure remains on the left side.

The setting is typically 45% of the pagewidth.


Thank for your help.


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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: ***@gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: [phone]
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
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[Helge Hafting]

Den 01. okt. 2014 01:18, skrev Patrick Dupre:
> Hello,
>
> I am not satisfied by the placement of wrapped figures:
> Probably, because in one part of the document there is too many
> figures compared to the text, there is some large spaces kept blank
> on the side of the wrapped figures.
>
> Is there any tip that I could use?
> Actually, latex should just move the pictures a bit farther where there
> are no more figures if it is the issue.
>
> I use outer placement and allow floating, one column.
> If I change for left or right of inner, the figure remains on the left side.
>
> The setting is typically 45% of the pagewidth.
Wrapped figures is one of the few things LaTeX isn't good at.
I don't think the wrapped figures "float around", so if my understanding
is correct, they will not be moved automatically. You can move them
yourself though, using cut & paste.

Making figures smaller may help, if you can fit more figures on a page
that way.
Making figures bigger may help - there will be less room for text next
to the figures, so less white space.

If you want automatic placement of figures to work better, use floating
figures instead of wrapped figures. Floating figures are good at
avoiding excess white space - they will be moved to another page if
necessary.

Helge Hafting

[Patrick Dupre]

Thank

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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: ***@gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: [phone]
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 at 1:55 PM
> From: "Helge Hafting" <***@hist.no>
> To: "Patrick Dupre" <***@gmx.com>, lyx <lyx-***@lists.lyx.org>
> Subject: Re: Wrapped figure
>
>
> Den 01. okt. 2014 01:18, skrev Patrick Dupre:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am not satisfied by the placement of wrapped figures:
> > Probably, because in one part of the document there is too many
> > figures compared to the text, there is some large spaces kept blank
> > on the side of the wrapped figures.
> >
> > Is there any tip that I could use?
> > Actually, latex should just move the pictures a bit farther where there
> > are no more figures if it is the issue.
> >
> > I use outer placement and allow floating, one column.
> > If I change for left or right of inner, the figure remains on the left side.
> >
> > The setting is typically 45% of the pagewidth.
> Wrapped figures is one of the few things LaTeX isn't good at.
> I don't think the wrapped figures "float around", so if my understanding
> is correct, they will not be moved automatically. You can move them
> yourself though, using cut & paste.
>
> Making figures smaller may help, if you can fit more figures on a page
> that way.
> Making figures bigger may help - there will be less room for text next
> to the figures, so less white space.
>
> If you want automatic placement of figures to work better, use floating
> figures instead of wrapped figures. Floating figures are good at
> avoiding excess white space - they will be moved to another page if
> necessary.
>
I use wrapped figures to reduce to number of pages of my document.
Unfortunately, the agencies first care of the parameter!

[Helge Hafting]

Den 01. okt. 2014 14:02, skrev Patrick Dupre:
> I use wrapped figures to reduce to number of pages of my document.
> Unfortunately, the agencies first care of the parameter!
I see. Tweaking the placement manually is probably the way to go then.

Another space-saving trick is to put two (or more) narrow figures
side-by-side inside the same float.
If you need them to have separate captions (for referencing), start by
putting two 50% minipages in the float. Then put one image in each
minipage, and also one caption in each. (And if you want 3 figures side
by side, use 3 minipages with 33% width.)

This way, you can have more narrow figures per page - closer to the text
that describes them.

Helge Hafting

[aparsloe]

On 2/10/2014 12:55 a.m., Helge Hafting wrote:
>
> Den 01. okt. 2014 01:18, skrev Patrick Dupre:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am not satisfied by the placement of wrapped figures:
>> Probably, because in one part of the document there is too many
>> figures compared to the text, there is some large spaces kept blank
>> on the side of the wrapped figures.
>>
>> Is there any tip that I could use?
>> Actually, latex should just move the pictures a bit farther where there
>> are no more figures if it is the issue.
>>
>> I use outer placement and allow floating, one column.
>> If I change for left or right of inner, the figure remains on the
>> left side.
>>
>> The setting is typically 45% of the pagewidth.
> Wrapped figures is one of the few things LaTeX isn't good at.
> I don't think the wrapped figures "float around", so if my
> understanding is correct, they will not be moved automatically. You
> can move them yourself though, using cut & paste.
Helge Hafting

In LyX, Insert > Float > Figure Wrap Float does does provide a floating
option. When you right click on the label, under Settings, there is an
Allow floating checkbox. I have occasionally used this when dissatisfied
with the fixed position result for a wrapped figure.

Andrew

[Anders Host-Madsen]

Unfortunately, wrapfig in latex works very poorly. Even when letting
wrapped figures float, they are often placed unfortunate. What
I do is in the final version of a document, I manually move
wrapped figures around, reduce spaces etc. so that it
looks right. This is of course against the latex philosophy.