I try to use the sidecap package to get the legend of my figure at the side. I do get the desired position of the caption if I use the pdf output of the embedded objects lyx file
However, including the (what I think important) document preferences: ########### \usepackage{sidecap} % Definitionen um Legenden neben Tabellen und Abbildungen zu setzen \newcommand{\TabBesBeg}[1][1.0]{% \let\MyTable\table \let\MyEndtable\endtable \renewenvironment{table}[1]{\begin{SCtable}[#1]##1}{\end{SCtable}}} \newcommand{\TabBesEnd}{% \let\table\MyTable \let\endtable\MyEndtable} \newcommand{\FigBesBeg}[1][1.0]{% \let\MyFigure\figure \let\MyEndfigure\endfigure \renewenvironment{figure}[1]{\begin{SCfigure}[#1]##1}{\end{SCfigure}}} \newcommand{\FigBesEnd}{% \let\figure\MyFigure \let\endfigure\MyEndfigure} ########### and inserting \FigBesBeg figure (as "Embedded Object) {\FigBesEnd} in the text does not give me the sidecap. The terminal output does not tell me anything conspicious: Running: pdflatex "EmbeddedObjects.tex" > /dev/null This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./EmbeddedObjects.tex LaTeX2e <2011/06/27> Babel <3.9f> and hyphenation patterns for 78 languages loaded. Running: xdg-open "EmbeddedObjects.pdf" What am I missing? Wolfgang