[texhax] Question about Figures, Large Captions and Margins

[Eugene Bolotin]

 This solution did not work my caption seems to have disappeared completely:
\def\Caption#1{%
 \caption{\vbox{

  \advance\leftskip-.5in
   \advance\rightskip-.5in
 #1}}%
}
Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Eugene Bolotin <ybolo001 at student.ucr.edu> wrote:
> Dear Texhax,
> I have a tricky problem,
> I am writing a dissertation and the format has to be as follows.
> If the figure has a large caption, and the figure + caption cannot fit
> onto one page,
> you are allowed to put the caption on one page, and the figure on the next page.
> However, apparently the caption will be printed "facing" the figure,
> so the caption margins
> need to mirror the figure margins. The required margins for my
> dissertation are 1.5 inch on the left
> and 1 inch on the right. But for the caption on its own page the
> margins should be 1 inch on left and 1.5 inch on right.
> I have a lot of these figures. I managed to make the caption have its
> own page with package "fltpage" but am stuck on the margin part.
> Any help on how to achieve this would be greatly appreciated.
> I am using Miktex 2.8 for windows.
> Thanks a lot,
> EB
>
> --
> Eugene Bolotin
>



-- 
Eugene Bolotin
Ph.D. candidate
Genetics Genomics and Bioinformatics
University of California Riverside
ybolo001 at student.ucr.edu
Dr. Frances Sladek Lab