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I write thesis and need to put a lot of small pictures into it. I also need to use captions (with labels) for better navigation and referring to these pictures. In the same time I want to spare space and put captions beside (next to) pictures, in margin, like marginpar does. I tried sidecap package but it didn't work, neither mcaption package did help. Maybe using a minipage would solve it, but I would like also to align caption to the middle (vertical align) of picture.

Any suggestions?

Vít Baisa
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    To put relevant stuff in the margin that actually should go to print doesn't sound like a super-good idea to me... Have you really considered all other options? – aioobe May 09 '10 at 12:34
  • Have you tried the following option `\usepackage[margincaption]{sidecap}`? Since in general it sounds like a problem to tackle with the `sidecap` or `caption` packages. – mropa May 09 '10 at 15:26
  • aioobe: It may not be a super-good idea, but I would like to do it in that way. I don't use any text in captions, just numbers which are sufficient for navigation. mropa: Thanks for the hint but I have already tried this and it didn't work. This feature is not documented and when I was trying that, it gave me some errors. Maybe I should investigate and try to solve this problem again. – Vít Baisa May 16 '10 at 20:23

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I got this working in my thesis with:

\usepackage[margincaption,outercaption,ragged,wide]{sidecap}
\sidecaptionvpos{figure}{t} 
\sidecaptionvpos{table}{t}

and then working with

\begin{SCfigure}[][htb]
  ...
\end{SCfigure}

Also, you can style the caption with the caption package like so:

\captionsetup[SCfigure]{format=plain, ...}

(same for SCtable)

pulsar
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