LyX ⇒ How to make a picture center

[parmenides]

Hi,

In lyx, I have inserted a picture by calling menu "insert -> graphics". By default, the picture aligns left. I wonder how to make it aligning center. Thanks.

[gmedina]

Hi,

in LaTeX you can use the \centering command inside the figure environment, before including the figure. I have no idea how that can be done in LyX, however, since I've never used it.

[meho_r]

"Insert > Graphics" will put a picture inside the document as a non-float. To center it all you need to do is to change paragraph properties for the line the picture is in. Place the cursor before or after the picture > right click > Paragraph Settings... (or from menu: Edit > Paragraph Settings...), then set "Alignment" to "Center".

[parmenides]

Thank you very much.

[gmedina]

"Insert > Graphics" will put a picture inside the document as a non-float. To center it all you need to do is to change paragraph properties for the line the picture is in. Place the cursor before or after the picture > right click > Paragraph Settings... (or from menu: Edit > Paragraph Settings...), then set "Alignment" to "Center".

Correct me if I wrong, but I read somewhere that using paragraph settings, as you suggested, tantamounts to using a center environment, thus introducing additional (and, in most cases, undesired) vertical space. On the other hand, the \centering command that I recommended doesn't produce the additional spacing; there should be some way to achieve this effect using LyX.

[meho_r]

"Insert > Graphics" will put a picture inside the document as a non-float. To center it all you need to do is to change paragraph properties for the line the picture is in. Place the cursor before or after the picture > right click > Paragraph Settings... (or from menu: Edit > Paragraph Settings...), then set "Alignment" to "Center".

Correct me if I wrong, but I read somewhere that using paragraph settings, as you suggested, tantamounts to using a center environment, thus introducing additional (and, in most cases, undesired) vertical space. On the other hand, the \centering command that I recommended doesn't produce the additional spacing; there should be some way to achieve this effect using LyX.

Yes, you are right, it is using center environment and using \centering command is a better solution. However, for that one must enter the command as a LaTeX code and pay attention to limit the command to the picture only and... that's LyX In their manual, when explaining graphic stuff, they put an image in a centered paragraph as an example. Nah, just one of many shortcomings of LyX, I guess...