[texhax] Question about Figures, Large Captions and Margins

Paul Isambert zappathustra at free.fr
Tue Feb 9 13:31:23 CET 2010


Barring my missing brace, I can't help you more here without a minimal 
example...
Paul

Eugene Bolotin a écrit :
> It seems like the vbox is doing something strange.
> My caption is now completely gone from the page...
> EB
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Paul Isambert <zappathustra at free.fr> wrote:
>   
>> Well, my previous answer won't work actually since fltpage redefines
>> \caption on each occurrence of a figure.
>> So what you should do instead is:
>>
>> \def\Caption#1{%
>>  \caption{\vbox
>>   \advance\leftskip-.5in
>>    \advance\rightskip-.5in
>>  #1}}%
>> }
>>
>> and use \Caption instead of \caption in your figures.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> Eugene Bolotin a écrit :
>>     
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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