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10. FLOATS AND CAPTIONSTable 10.6: Permittedarguments for somesidecaption relatedcommands\sidecapmarginleftrightinnerouter\overridescapmarginleftright\else\captionstyle{\raggedright}%\fi}You can change the command to suit your purposes; for example, uncommenting the\captionnamefont line would result in the caption’s float name being set in a bold font.\overridescapmargin{〈margin〉}\sidecapraiseSometimes the caption may not be placed exactly where you want it — it may be in thewrong margin or at the wrong height.The command \overridescapmargin will force the following caption into the〈margin〉 you specify which can only be left or right. In a twosided document where\sidecapmargin is inner or outer and the caption goes in the wrong margin, it is likelythat the declaration \strictpagecheck will solve the problem. The wrong margin mightbe chosen in a twocolumn document where the float is in the second column; use\overridescapmargin{right}to fix this.The caption may not be at quite the height you want with respect to the float. The captionwill be raised by the length \sidecapraise in addition to the calculated movement(or lowered if \sidecapraise is negative).\sidecapfloatwidth{〈length〉}The float is set in a minipage with width sidecapfloatwidth, whose default definitionis\newcommand*{\sidecapfloatwidth}{\linewidth}That is, the normal width is the same as the current \linewidth. For a narrow table, say,you may want to reduce this, for example to half by\renewcommand*{\sidecapfloatwidth}{0.5\linewidth}Note that \sidecapfloatwidth is a macro, not a length, so it must be altered by using a\renewcommand*, not by \setlength.If you do reduce the \sidecapfloatwidth you may notice that the sidecaption isactualy placed a distance \sidecapsep with respect to the float’s minipage, not withrespect to the text block.Table 10.6 was created by the following code.200