On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@web.de> wrote:
> Am 29.05.2010 01:04, schrieb george legge: > > > 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. >> > > Use a wrapped float. Its option "Overhang" is exactly what you need. > Attached is a LyX example file. > For more infos about wrapped floats have a look at sec. 3.2.2 "Wrap Floats" > of the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX#s Help menu. > > regards Uwe > Thank you Uwe. "Overhang" is exactly what I need. However, I do not want wrapping, and "overhang" seems to be offered only by Wrap Float. I don't think a plain Figure Float recognizes "overhang". Is there an easy way to insert an "overhang" command into a Figure Float? Alternatively can I turn off wrapping in a Wrap Float? I still wish to insert a caption into the space created by the overhang. I could force the overhang just by letting the caption push the figure across, thereby creating an overhang, though I need to do that with the caption always on the inner side. However getting exactly the same overhang every time would be messy that way. Basically, I wish to get all my figures to float to the tops of pages, flush to the outside and overhang text by a set distance, thus visually defining a marginal column. Your "overhang" almost does it. Cheers, George
