Finally managed to solve the problem using the textpos package. In your preamble, put:
% absolute to use whole page, showboxes draws line around each box, useful for debugging \usepackage[absolute,showboxes]{textpos} % sets up a grid, useful for debugging \usepackage[texcoord,colorgrid]{eso-pic} % adjust zero point to left upper of page \textblockorigin{0mm}{0mm} % generate grid of 10x10 and keep margins of 15 mm left and right and 30 mm top bottom around the grid \TPGrid[15mm,30mm]{10}{10} % create some constants. \newcommand{\boxwidth}{5} \newcommand{\xleft}{0} \newcommand{\yleft}{0} \newcommand{\xright}{5.1} \newcommand{\yright}{5} then, instert some ERT to have one page with four figures. \begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xleft,\yleft) <figure> \end{textblock} \begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xright,\yleft) <figure> \end{textblock} \begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xleft,\yright) <figure> \end{textblock} \begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xright,\yright) <figure> \end{textblock} insert your figures / minipage / whatever you want at <figures> in the normal Lyx way. If you have multiple pages with figures and no text, inserting a clear page / clear double page / page break / new page is NOT sufficient to prevent the figures from cluttering on one page. You have to put a 'protected space' (Ctrl+Space) behind the last '\end(textblock)' ERT. It took me quite a while to figure this out, but it has to do with the fact minipages are just put under normal text, no wrapping is applied. If you want the content of a textblock to scale with \boxwidth (you probably want that), insert the content in a minipage (Box in Lyx) and set the width of the minipage to 100 Column Width %. The minipage may also be in a float figure environment. Finally, it would have been useful if somebody had provided me a hint to this package... Regards, Corné 2010/1/24 Jan Piet Joris en Corneel <jpjorisencorn...@gmail.com>: > Dear all, > > I have two pages of graphs of a measurement in a two sided layout with > normal left-to-right text. I use classicthesis. > > The graphs consists of four floats and should be printed on two pages > opposite to each other, so when someone opens the document, one can > see all four graphs at once. > > Until now, I tried with clear page, clear double page ect. to do this. > Unfortunately after 'clear double page', a right (odd) page starts, > which is expected behaviour. I want to change this to left for this > case. > > In the other parts of the document, clear double page should behave normally. > > Does anybody have some suggestions? Maybe clever use of minipage or ERT? > > Thanks, > Corné >