Thank you Helge Yes that worked! Your explanation makes sense. What a wonderful group this LyX-Users list is! No flaming, no spurious suggestions - just thoughthful and measured responses.
Thank you very much. John O'Gorman On 19/03/12 22:04, Helge Hafting wrote: > On 15. mars 2012 05:11, John O'Gorman wrote: >> Hi >> >> I'm trying to put a jpeg image on the left with a paragraph of text to >> its right. >> >> I've tried putting these items into a table. >> I've tried putting them into 2 lyx boxes (aka minipages) with an hfill >> between them. >> >> In both instances the left element (the graphics is top aligned) and >> right one is bottom aligned. >> They look OK (both top aligned) within LyX but not when I view or print >> the DVI or PDF. >> Can anyone help? > > > To see what happens, temporarily turn on borders for those minipages. > The sizes might be surprising. > > In this case, you get one box just tall enough for the graphic, and > another just tall enough for the text. So alignment inside the voz > won't matter, as there aren't room for positioning inside anyway. > > The boxes themselves lines up by their "first baselines". So the > reference for your text box is the baseline of the first line of text. > > In the box with graphics, the image can be seen as a single huge > letter. So its baseline is the bottom of the graphic, and this line up > with the first line of text in the other box. > > A simple fix: > Add a blank line first in both boxes. ctrl+space for a protected > space, then ctrl+enter for a forced linebreak. Now both boxes line > up by the top. (really, by the baseline of the blank line at the top. > But since both boxes now starts with a blank line, the top is also > aligned. > > This may be "good enough". There is some extra whitespace at the > top of the boxes, it might not matter if you aren't going to > have borders anyway. > > You can also experiment with setting the box height, then the > internal alignment gets useful. Keep the borders "on" until you like > what you see. > > Helge Hafting > >
