Helge Hafting wrote: > I managed to get what I wanted - a sort of > margin notes that works from inside floats. > > They are one line, must be used at the > beginning of a text line, and may > overlap if there's many of them. Still, they > work for me. \makebox and \raisebox with 0 size > is used so the note won't disturb the > current text position.
this should also work with more than one line \usepackage{ifthen} \usepackage{textpos} \newcommand{\floatmargin}[1]{% \ifthenelse{\isodd{\value{page}}}% {\begin{textblock}{2}(9,0)#1\end{textblock}}% {\begin{textblock}{2}(-2,0)#1\end{textblock}}% } and in the float write before the image in tex (red): \floatmargin{% ... any text ... ... any Text ... } Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/