On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Julien Rioux <jri...@physics.utoronto.ca>wrote:
> On 28/05/2010 7:04 PM, george legge wrote: > >> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Julien Rioux<jri...@physics.utoronto.ca >> >wrote: >> Hi, >> I am not completely clear on what you want to accomplish, but you might >> want >> to have a look at the sidecap package [1]. I wrote a minimalistic module >> to >> use the package in LyX [2]. Maybe that would help. Otherwise, sorry for >> the >> noise. >> >> Thank you Julien for the prompt reply. >> I have read your documentation. >> Your package does allow figures to move into the margin and captions to be >> placed on either side. >> But it does not appear to tackle the major problem, which is: >> How to get figures (of all widths) to justify to a boundary several cm >> outside the text edge. >> >> George >> >> > Hi George, > > First, I did not write the sidecap package; I only wrote a LyX module to > better integrate the functionality of the LaTeX package within LyX. > > Second, there is a sidecap package option, "wide", which let the figure > extend into the margin. Unfortunately, there is hardly any documentation > about the sidecap package. I do not know how to customize this very well. > But the attached LyX file use this option and the "innercaption" option to > achieve something close to what you want, I think. > > Make sure you have sidecap.module somewhere where LyX can find it. > > Best of luck, > Julien > Thank you Julien. Yes, I found the sidecap package a short while ago and then found "wide". "wide" certainly works on text and I am right now trying it on a figure. It looks as though it should solve most of my problems; but I agree the documentation is very sparse. It is time I knocked off for the night. I shall let you know how successful I am. Cheers, George
