Hello all,
I might be answering my own question, but if there other ways to solve the
caption problem, I am eager to try them out.
It is a pretty "dirty" trick, but it worked nicely. When you have a short
caption, just add at its end whitespaces (crtl+shtift_space) and there you
go, our caption goes to the left. This trick avoid adding preamble and tex
code in the middle of the text. Of course, it might have its disadvantage,
but...
Jonatan
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Jonatan R. Catai <jrca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, Wolfgang
>
> Yes, my caption is small, a few words only (I just want to show a
> structural formula of a molecule - so, there isn't much to say about it).
> When I added some more words to the caption, then the suggestion of using
> the caption package worked. I looked at the Embedded Object for small
> caption but could not find anything. The interesting thing is that only the
> caption stay on the middle of the page, no matter what I do. The picture
> itself, goes to the right, center, left when I just select Paragraph
> Settings and choose the justification.
>
> I can't image that this can be so difficult, because it is quite common in
> reports, article and thesis to have small captions to the left side (or
> justified as would be a large caption).
>
> Someone knows the trick?
>
> Jonatan
>
> PS. I apologize if I am making "well known questions" but I am a newbee ;-)
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann <
> engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>
>> Am Friday 21 August 2009 22:22:33 schrieb Jonatan R. Catai:
>> > Unfortunetly, it did not work.
>> >
>> > Only the picture goes to the left, but not the caption. Some other idea?
>> >
>> >
>> > Jonatan
>> >
>>
>> Jonatan,
>> I am not sure now what you are aiming at. Is your figure a small one and
>> the
>> legend short, so that it would be better to have the whole float at the
>> left?
>> In this case you might consider the \usepackage[Option]{sidecap} as
>> described
>> in the EmbeddedObjects help menu. The \usepackage{caption} has also
>> solutions. You could also consider using boxes or parboxes, but I am not
>> familiar with it. I personally use twocolumns in my book (Koma-script) and
>> if
>> a float is small, I restrict it to one column, if large, spanning columns
>> by
>> clicking with the right mouse button on
>> floatobject: figure > settings
>> Wolfgang
>>
>> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann <
>> >
>> > engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>> > > Am Friday 21 August 2009 04:23:06 schrieb Jonatan R. Catai:
>> > > > Dear All,
>> > > >
>> > > > I added a float picture on my report and Lyx adds the caption
>> > >
>> > > automatically
>> > >
>> > > > - so far so good. However, the caption stays on the center of the
>> page.
>> > > > I tryed clicking with the right button of the mouse outside the
>> caption
>> > >
>> > > box,
>> > >
>> > > > within the float picture box, and in Paragraph Settings change to
>> left,
>> > >
>> > > but
>> > >
>> > > > no sucess - the caption remaings on the center in DVI and PDF
>> output.
>> > > > Am
>> > >
>> > > I
>> > >
>> > > > doing something wrong? How can I change its position to the left?
>> > > >
>> > > > I am using article koma script.
>> > > >
>> > > > Jonatan
>> > >
>> > > Mark the float with mouse, click with right mouse button, select
>> > > paragraph settings > justification left
>> > > (wording might be different in English; I am using the German setting)
>> > >
>> > > Wolfgang
>>
>>
>>
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