Dear LyX Developers and Users,
For the past couple of days, I've been working on a custom LaTeX document class
for a non-profit. It is based on memoir, and while it is still a work in
progress, I'd like to think that it is rather awesome.
Because the final goal is to use this document class in LyX (version 2.0, they
have already downloaded and started using the release candidate), I'm trying to
create custom insets and environments for the document class features. One
environment that has me stumped though, is how to create an inset for the
memoir "sidecaption" feature.
The sidecaption environment allows you to typeset the caption of your figure in
the margin (similar to the way that the Tufte handout and book classes work),
and the style guide for this class calls for their use. This is how an example
in LaTeX would work.
\begin{figure}
\begin{sidecaption}{A typical learning center in Mexico City.}
\resizebox*{\textwidth}{!}{\includegraphics{learning1.jpg}}
\end{sidecaption}
\end{figure}
Does anyone have any ideas on how I could create an inset that captures all of
this information? The tricky bit seems to be that the caption is specified in
the \begin{sidecaption} statement, rather than as a \caption command. I know
that LyX 2 now supports creating insets for optional arguments, but I'm not
entirely sure how I could use that to solve this difficulty.
I'd greatly appreciate any thoughts. (Also, if it works, this would be a very
nice addition to the memoir layout that currently ships with LyX 2. Would it be
too late to incorporate it?)
Cheers,
Rob
