On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:53:45AM +0100, Marwan Boustany wrote: > 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. > I tried using a table with three spaces... But that does not work. > I tried some other stuff that I cannot now remember... same result.
I've done this successfully in lyx using a table and in latex directly with minipages. What happens when you use a table? You can specify sizes (e.g. 30% text width) for the columns that contain the text so that the 'p' option for the tabular environment is used, allowing paragraphs of text in these columns.
