Thanks to Mukhtars instructions I managed to use the captionbeside package
correctly. I thought I should report to the list, since at some parts I asked
him directly.
Add to your preamble
\newcommand{\CapBesBeg}{%
\setcapindent*{0em}
\let\MyCaption\caption
\renewcommand{\caption}{\begin{captionbeside}}}
\newcommand{\CapBesEnd}{%
\end{captionbeside}
\setcapindent{0em}
\let\caption\MyCaption}
and then in the document include your figure as follows
\begin{figure}
\CapBesBeg\caption[Short Caption]{\label{fig:label}Long Caption}
[o]\includegraphics{figures/filename}\CapBesEnd
\end{figure}
This sounds easy, but I had some difficulties in LyX. Therefore the following
1- The figure in the float has to be below the caption text.
2- The \CapBesBeg and \CapBesEnd have to be in ERT (ctr-l) and have to be
inside the float.
3- The legend and one of the options [l],[r],[i],[o] have to precede the
figure (\includegraphics command) and in ERT. The options determine the
placement of the legend and the figure:
l left
r right
i inner margin in two-sided layout
o outer margin in two-sided layout
4- For the other figure floats which are not captionbeside-controlled, I had
difficulties with the
\setcapindent{0mm}
in my preamble -this prevents a caption indent, e.g.
Abbildung 3.27: Eine wachsende Polypeptidkette (rot und blau) erhält ihre
sekundäre....
instead of
Abbildung 3.27: Eine wachsende Polypeptidkette (rot und blau) erhält
ihre sekundäre...
To make \setcapindent{0mm} work in the non-captionbeside-controlled captions
it has to be inserted AFTER the
\newcommand{\CapBesBeg}{%
\setcapindent*{0em}
\let\MyCaption\caption
\renewcommand{\caption}{\begin{captionbeside}}}
\newcommand{\CapBesEnd}{%
\end{captionbeside}
\setcapindent{0em}
\let\caption\MyCaption}
Otherwise it is apparently conflicting with the captionbeside package
5- I had several figures below each other in a float with just one caption.
Vertical space and a line break between them is not respected by the
captionbeside environment. One has to place the figures in a minipage
environment. The target size (e.g. 40% of textwidth) has to be specified in
the minipage environment (settings>width>textwidth%) and not
in the figures themselves. The figures must be scaled to \textwidth in
order to avoid scaling twice.
I am thankful to Mukhtar and most of the remarks above are from his Mails.
Wolfgang
