Peter Clark wrote:
> First, is it possible for text to flow around a minipage? For instance,
> using nothing but LyX, when I create a minipage between two paragraphs, the
> second paragraph only starts after the minipage ends. I would like it to wrap
> around instead, preferably without having to make the second paragraph a
> minipage as well, which would require me to lengthen the second paragraph
> until it was the same length as the minipage.
you can put the minipage inside a floatflt environment.
LyX 1.1.6 has support for this
> Second, is it possible to have finer control over the placement of the
> minipage? I am thinking of two matters here. First, I want to "bump" the
> minipage into the margin space (by about half a cm or so) and secondly, since
> I would printing two-sided, I want the minipage to be on the left side of the
> page for even numbered pages and on the right side for odd numbered pages.
> (In otherwords, always on the outer margins.)
there is an option only for vertical placement of minipages. If you want
a horizontal one too, than try it with \hspace{any value} before
the minipage starts.
with
\ifodd {yes}{no}
you can control the odd/even pages
Herbert
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