LyX ⇒ How to Align the Float Caption?

[insipidtoast]

The figure in the float can be aligned using the edit--->paragraph settings menu, but the float caption seems to always stay in the center. What do I do if I want it on the left of the page?

[scottkosty]

The figure in the float can be aligned using the edit--->paragraph settings menu, but the float caption seems to always stay in the center. What do I do if I want it on the left of the page?

Check out the caption package. (just google "latex caption package" to find its documentation. You probably already have it installed).

Putting this in Document > Settings > LaTeX preamble works for me:

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\usepackage[singlelinecheck=false,justification=justified]{caption}

Does that work?

[localghost]

Check out the caption package. (just google "latex caption package" to find its documentation. You probably already have it installed). […]

No need for a search engine. The caption package -- as every official package -- has an entry on CTAN where you can get its manual. In case the package is already installed, the texdoc command line tool is the way to go.

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texdoc caption

Another quite new source for package manuals is the TeXdoc Online website.


Thorsten

[Stefan Kottwitz]

By the way, no need to google a package documentation, even of it or its documentation is not locally installed: the already mentioned TeXdoc server has been installed to support this forum: there's a doc button, which you can see when editing a post - double lick a package name, and the button generates the documentation link you you. I think it's very handy to conveniently link the suitable package manual for the answerers and for the questioner to open it. Here, the doc button produces this link: caption. The small icon should give a visual hint.

Besides that, there's a CTAN button for generating the link to the package archive page, some further buttons lead to command reference or produce an MWE link, just as a support for the answerers to make writing easier.

Stefan

[insipidtoast]

"Please note that the caption package is only controlling the look & feel of the captions. It does
not control the placement of the captions."

-Taken from the first page of the link in the above post.

The figure in the float can be aligned using the edit--->paragraph settings menu, but the float caption seems to always stay in the center. What do I do if I want it on the left of the page?

Does that work?

You mean does the edit-->paragraphp settings menu then allow me to left justify the caption after I've copy and pasted your code into the Latex Preamble?
The answer is no.

*****Sorry scottkosty, entering that code actually did work, I just didn't notice any changes until previewing the pdf. Great quick fix! How'd you learn that? Makes no sense why lyx would have the default as a centered caption.*****

And Yes, that caption package is already installed.

[scottkosty]

Thank you for the corrections, localghost, and Stefan_K.

*****Sorry scottkosty, entering that code actually did work, I just didn't notice any changes until previewing the pdf. Great quick fix! How'd you learn that? Makes no sense why lyx would have the default as a centered caption.*****

And Yes, that caption package is already installed.

It is not LyX's default; it is LaTeX's default. I learned it by googling "align caption latex package" or something like that, but if it didn't show up in the first few links I was going to check out the caption package (which I had prior exposure to). With time you will learn the difference between LyX and LaTeX and that will help you search.