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) \end{textblock}
\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xright,\yleft) \end{textblock}
\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xleft,\yright) \end{textblock}
\begin{textblock}{\boxwidth}(\xright,\yright) \end{textblock}
insert your figures / minipage / whatever you want at 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 :
> 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
>
