[Tex/LaTex] How to put a figure in one column and its caption in another column in a two column article latex

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Could some one help me to figure this issue out? I have a two column article and I have figures that are long. They fit in one column and that's ok but if I want to add the caption under the figure, the tex will be too large and does not fit in that column. Is there a way to put the figure in one column and the caption in front of it in the other column?!
I tried different things such as figure* or floatrow but that does not give me what I want.

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You can place the image and an accompanying caption in two separate floats, since nothing prevents you from doing that. That is, a figure is just a float and can contain virtually anything (or nothing); a \caption without an image, or an image without a \caption:

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\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum,graphicx}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[t]
  \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth,height=.6\textheight]{example-image}
  %\caption{This is a caption belonging to the figure on right right.}
\end{figure}

\lipsum[1-2]

\begin{figure}[t]
  %\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth,height=.6\textheight]{example-image}
  \caption{This is a caption belonging to the figure on the left.}
\end{figure}

\lipsum[3-5]
\end{document}

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I'm not a lyx user, so I am not sure if its treatment of figures is different from LaTeX. In LaTeX, for question 2, just put caption above figure. something like this:

\documentclass{article}
% In preamble:
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}

\begin{document}
% In document:
\begin{figure}
    \caption{A caption.}
    \label{fig:my-figure}
    \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
        \centering
        \subcaption{img\_A}
        \label{fig:my-figureA}
        \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{img_a}
    \end{subfigure}
    \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
        \centering
        \subcaption{img\_B}
        \label{fig:my-figureB}
        \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{img_b}
    \end{subfigure}
    \caption{A caption.}
    \label{fig:my-figure}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Latex doesn't enable automatic breaking of floats into subfloats. This you should do manually.

[Tex/LaTex] How to insert a page break between a figure and its caption

Since you're already loading the caption package, you could proceed as follows:

\begin{figure}[p] % this "float" will reside on a floats-only page
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{Figure.pdf}
% note: no \caption and \label for now
\end{figure}
\clearpage % insert a page break
\captionof{figure}{caption} 
\label{label}

To create some unambiguous visual separation between the caption and the remaining material on that page, you could insert instructions such as \hrule\bigskip following \label.

That said, are you sure it's necessary to display the image file so large that the caption won't fit on the same page? E.g., you could try writing

\includegraphics[height=0.9\textheight]{Figure.pdf}

This should provide enough remaining space on the page to permit the caption being typeset on that page as well.

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