To follow up, while not exactly what I was after, I've managed to get close by removing the figure directive and replacing it with an "image in a table" construct - with one column being completely merged and containing the image.
Like I said, not idea - but sufficient. If someone has a better solution, I'd still love to hear it. Cheers L. On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Lachlan Simpson < [email protected]> wrote: > Hola, > > Still relatively new to Sphinx, I would appreciate some help with page > layout when including images. > > Background: Am writing in house documentation for entire IT stack. I am up > to the "server racks" > > Problem: I have a "Hardware" page, and I would like to have the servers, > then the printers, then the workstations etc listed from top to bottom. But > when I added the images (as figures) to the documentation, suddenly the > html page flow went haywire. See attached image. > > My preferred solution is for the images to be right/left aligned and the > reference or key ("legend") to be left/right aligned, rather than the > "image above legend" arrangement. > > What I've tried: > > 1. having the two figures at the top of the page left aligned > - the text flow was on the right, and it didn't match the spacing of the > images > > 2. using a sidebar > - the sidebar wasn't aligned with the appropriate image, and the text > flow was misaligned > > 3. using a sidebar while having the figwidth set to 100% > - what you see in the image. > > 4. Using a container > - information "disappeared" - because of the required indentation, some > of the text then disappeared. > > > Has anyone faced this issue before? > > I am happy to do some CSS tweaking but for preference would like to do as > little of that as possible. > > cheers > L. > > > > -- > Lachlan Simpson > IT Manager > > Flight Data Systems > > Post: P.O Box 681, Tullamarine, Victoria, AUSTRALIA, 3043 > Phone: +61 3 8331 2900 > Fax: +61 3 9336 1758 > Web: www.flightdata.com.au > -- Lachlan Simpson IT Manager Flight Data Systems Post: P.O Box 681, Tullamarine, Victoria, AUSTRALIA, 3043 Phone: +61 3 8331 2900 Fax: +61 3 9336 1758 Web: www.flightdata.com.au -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
