Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Sidecap package

[nifty]

I'm trying to use the sidecap package. The text is 27 picas wide. There is a 10 pica white area to the outside margin. I'd like to put the caption in the white area with a width of 9 picas.

I put

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\usepackage[outercaption]{sidecap} 

in the preamble.

I used the following:

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\begin{SCfigure}
    \begin{minipage}{27.25pc}{\hfill
    \includegraphics{picture.eps}}\end{minipage}   
    \caption{\label{helloworld}The ``Hello world'' script in action}
\end{SCfigure}

Here is the left page:

left.jpg (49.27 KiB) Viewed 4465 times

Here is the right:

right.jpg (81.38 KiB) Viewed 4465 times

If I force it to a left-hand page, the caption sits at the left margin of the text instead of 10 picas away from the text page. The figure then overprints the caption. The caption should start at the left side of the number 4 and extend for a width of 9 picas (1 pica away from the figure).

If I force it to a right-hand page, figure looks good and the caption is to the right, but the caption is only 4 picas wide instead of 9 picas. The caption should end at the right side of the number 5.

How do I define the width of the caption? Thanks in advance.

[nifty]

I gave up on this package and just used minipages.

[localghost]

The sidecap package is the wrong choice for what you want to do. Furthermore you are using it in the wrong way (see manual). The floatrow package might be your friend here.

And by the way, if you have found a solution to your problem, it would be very kind if you post it here in its entirety. Otherwise this thread becomes completely useless.


Thorsten