Marwan Boustany wrote:
Peace,
I am currently figuring out lyx to write my thesis in. There is an
image that I want to put in, that was easy, but I want to put text on
the right and left of it to describe it.
I tried using boxes/minipages... does not work.
How did this fail for you? I have done exactly this. three minipages in
a row,
the sum of their widths must be less than 100% of line width. This in
necessary, or
the line will break between them. Text goes in the first and the last,
and the graphich
in the middle one. Right click on a minipage to bring up a dialog with
minipage settings,
including the width and alignments.
Now, the text minipages and the graphic minipages will probably not have the
same height. Fortunately, minipages have lots of adjustments for things
like this.
If you almost gets there but find it tricky - ask again.
I tried using a table with three spaces... But that does not work.
And how did this go wrong? First and last column must be fixed-width,
_if_ you
need several lines of text. The figure goes in the middle column. The
cells might
end up with different height, the stuff inside can be made to line up in
various ways.
Please tell us exactly what you want this to look like, and why the
table approach
didn't work. We can probably help you with this.
I tried some other stuff that I cannot now remember... same result.
I just cannot seem to find a way to properly align text on both sides
of the image... The only way is to make that image and text i want
into a jpg in office and import the whole thing (The text looks
blotchy and fat)... But this is a workaround, not a nice solution...
So is there a way to do what I want in this instance?
Depends on what you want. If you simply want text to line up with the top,
bottom or middle of your graphic, then it can be done with either boxes
or tables.
If you need something more specific than that, tell us and we'll have a
look.
Aligning text to some specific feature in the image is tricky, it is
then often
better to make a figure that contains such text. (xfig is nice in that
it lets
you use the same kind of text as the document uses, so there will be no
font differences. Not even a slight difference. You can even put math
and other
special text in the figure if need be.
Helge Hafting
