On Tuesday 23 April 2002 12:12, Herbert Voss wrote:
> you can put the minipage inside a floatflt environment.
> LyX 1.1.6 has support for this
Hmm--doesn't work. Under Layout > Paragraph > Extra Options, minipage and
floatflt are two seperate options that cannot be combined. (I read the
instructions in Extended Features but was unable to duplicate it, because
minipages don't have little tags like figures do.)
> > 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.
Nothing budged when I tried it on a plain minipage. Does it depend upon
floatflt? I tried \hspace{1cm} which should have produced a visible change,
but it looked the same. I tried placing \hspace in its own paragraph and at
the end of the paragraph before, with no success, except in a change of
vertical space when it was its own paragraph.
> with
> \ifodd {yes}{no}
> you can control the odd/even pages
Care to elaborate a bit? I'm still slogging my way through the LaTeX manual,
and this looks like it is a TeX command (at least I can't find it in either
of my LaTeX manuals). I presume it needs to have some further conditions, but
I have no idea what.
Thanks,
:Peter
