LyX ⇒ How to avoid GIANT gaps in text?

[insipidtoast]

When starting a new document I wrote a few pages then formatted everything and inserted images. The first page of the document has a huge gap at the bottom, because there is an image on the next page. However, the image on the next page isn't even at the top of the page, and there is a very small amount of text above it.

I thought this progam was supposed to be good at typesetting.

I tried entering various permutations of the \nopagebreak[n] command, but that didn't solve the issue. For some reason the program does not want to have a subsection headline at the bottom of the page...it would rather have a huge blank space and then put the subsection headline on the following page.

[insipidtoast]

And why is the float placement under the document-->settings menu? what if you want one float to follow certain placement instructions and another float to follow different placement instructions? This makes no sense to me.

Even when I select "here definitely" Lyx still does whatever it wants and puts my image somewhere random and undesirable.

The only way I've figured out so far how to remedy the problem in my above post is by inserting a pagebreak after the subsection headline. A couple pages later, however, lyx still strikes again by putting half of one of my data tables through the bottom margin of a page. WTF?! That looks very professional. What am I supposed to do? Tell the printer to attach a little flap so the reader can have a fold-out graph?!

[insipidtoast]

How can lyx automatically put part of a table on the following page?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I thought this progam was supposed to be good at typesetting.

It is, it should already work very well with default settings.

The first page of the document has a huge gap at the bottom, because there is an image on the next page.

Just don't choose Here definitely, because it would disable floating within the text for optimizing page breaks, resulting in such gaps.

Perhaps the image is not allowed to float, check the float/figure settings, specify placement options as desired, such as here via Document / Settings:

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For some reason the program does not want to have a subsection headline at the bottom of the page...it would rather have a huge blank space and then put the subsection headline on the following page.

It's good typesetting, not to place a headline without any following text at the bottom of a page. It can be changed, though.

Stefan