Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ multicol, sidecap | Captions in a multi-column Document

[mikeg]

Hi,

I'm trying to typset a 4 column poster using the package multicol. I've found a simple fix for the figure float problem associated with multicol at http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textp ... _hint.html

This is helpful but ideally I would like to be able to place the figure caption on the side using the sidecap package. I'm not very knowledgable about the internals of LaTeX but I did try modifying the code at the above link by replacing "captype{figure}" with "captype{SCfigure}" but, alas, that doesn't work.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get sidecap to work within multicol?

Many thanks in advance.

Mike