%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 6-5-17 on page 325.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.0pt}

\newcommand\sample{Some text for our page
 that is reused over and over again. }
\setlength\textheight{10\baselineskip}
\setlength\marginparwidth{53pt}
\setlength\marginparsep{8pt}
\addtolength\textwidth{-\marginparwidth}
\addtolength\textwidth{-\marginparsep}
\sloppy

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[margincaption,ragged]{sidecap}
% \sample as defined earlier
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{SCtable} \caption{A misaligned caption}
 \begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
  \sample \sample
 \end{minipage}\end{SCtable}
\begin{SCtable} \caption{An aligned caption}
 \begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
 \strut \sample \sample \unskip\strut
 \end{minipage}\end{SCtable}
\end{document}
