captionsfloatspositioning
I have a code for putting a figure:
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics{some_narrow_and_tall_image.pdf}
\caption{caption of the figure which can be pretty long}
\end{figure}
The page format is single-column. Right now the caption appears below the image, as expected from this code. I would like to set it up so that the caption is on the right hand-side of the image. Is that possible?
As far as I know there's no easy way to change the value for sidecaptionvpos
for individual objects (but perhaps someone will prove me wrong). I would suggest you to use the more powerful and flexible floatrow package instead; a little example in which the default position was selected to be top and then \thisfloatsetup{capbesideposition={bottom}} was used to change the vertical position of the caption for a selected object:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage[capbesideposition={top,outside},facing=yes,capbesidesep=quad]{floatrow}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\fcapside
{\caption{some text here to represent the caption}}
{\includegraphics{image1}}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\thisfloatsetup{capbesideposition={bottom}}
\fcapside
{\caption{some text here to represent the caption}}
{\includegraphics{image2}}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
The demo option for graphicx simply replaces actual figures with black rectangles; do not use that option in your actual document. I only used [!ht] for the example; I am not suggesting this to be used.
Best Answer
You can use the floatrow package to do this.
Which yields: