placing subcaptions of subfloats at thir right side

Question

How can I place subcaptions of subfloats (subfigures) on their right side?

Answer 1

You might want to explore the sidecap package. Whether it behaves nicely with subfigures, I don't know...

Answer 2

You could put your subfig next to a minipage with the graphic.

For example:

\begin{figure}
    \begin{minipage}{1in}
        \graphic
    \end{minipage}
    \begin{minipage}{1in}
        \begin{subfloat}[This is a caption]
        ~
        \end{subfloat}
    \end{minipage}
\end{figure}

Where \graphic is a placeholder for your image (I used \def\graphic{\rule{1in}{1in}})

I don't know how to ensure that the empty sub-float gives enough space for the caption, however.