elsarticle figure to left in LyX

Question

I use elsarticle 2 docment page in LyX.

I put figure in left column partion and use

\resizebox{3.4in}{!}{ Figure.png } 

to make it smaller

But I still need to align the figure to left of the page

How to do this in LyX?

Answer 1

The resizing can already be done in \includegraphics with the width option. If the figure starts a new paragraph, add \noindent. If there are centering commands before (\centering or environment center), then you might consider removing them. Otherwise it can be put to the left by \hfill\null. The \null prevents that the \hfill is skipped by the paragraph end. A third method uses \leftline (unlike \mbox) it does not switch into horizontal mode).

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
  \noindent
  \includegraphics[width=3.4in]{Figure}
  \caption{Figure caption}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=3.4in]{Figure}\hfill\null
  \caption{Figure caption}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \leftline{%
    \includegraphics[width=3.4in]{Figure}%
  }
  \caption{Figure caption}
\end{figure}
\end{document}