Difficulties with floating object

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 05:18:52PM +0200, Andreas Plihal wrote:
>    Ad settings window:
> 
>      o required lines: You used to be able to specify it. Now you can check
>        the box, but you can no longer enter the number of lines.
> 
>      o placement (outside, inside, left, right):
> 
> 
>           o is not stable selectable. Sometimes it can happen that at a
>             certain moment (when?) it can no longer be changed.

I am not able to reproduce your problem. On what platform do you run lyx?
Is it self-compiled?

>           o I have color boxes that extend over several pages. Let's assume
>             that the color box starts on a right-hand page. Somewhere in the
>             color box I then insert a graphic that will then - let's assume -
>             end up on a left-hand page when printed. Since I want the text to
>             flow around the graphic, I insert it as a floating object. Since
>             I want a graphic to always be on the outside edge, I therefore
>             choose "outside" for the placement.
> 
>             And now this error occurs: the graphic is suddenly on the inside.
>             And this cannot be corrected within the color box settings.
>             In such cases I am forced to format the graphic and the adjacent
>             text in two columns. But this is very cumbersome because,
>             firstly, the alignment of floating objects and multi-columns do
>             not coincide. And secondly, I am then forced to attack the
>             multi-column box whenever the page break forces the image to be
>             moved.

Looks related to latex. Is this really new to lyx 2.4?

Pavel