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Subject: Re: How do I get half-width figures side-by-side?
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Date: 15 Nov 90 10:39:49 GMT
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In article <tas.658396808@tasman> tas@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Tasman Derk Van Ommen) writes:  
...
>Well, I want to put half-width figures side-by-side, but I did not find
>any help in section 5.4.3   I did think that I could use a minipage environ-
>ment, but LaTeX choked on my use of figures inside any kind of parbox.
>
>How DO I put half width figures side by side?  A negative vspace after the
>first figure is difficult unless I can work out how much extra vertical space
>LaTeX has added with the figure caption.  Oh, and how do I force the
>figure caption to actually come out half-width?
>
Putting two figures side by side is quite easy, you just have to understand
what the figure-environment really does. The figure-environment gives TeX
the advice to put the included stuff to a position in the document with
enough space for the figure. Furthermore the figure-environment is telling
the \caption-command to produce "Figure #:" (instead of "Table #:").
Knowing this, the solution is easy (but it took me about 6 months):
You put two minipages inside the figure. Each minipage may have its own
\caption and so you get 2 figures side by side. The following example can
demonstrate this:

\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
  \begin{minipage}[b]{4cm} % option "b" to become the captions on the same line
    \vspace{5cm}
    \caption{The left picture}
  \end{minipage}   % no empty line here to become the figures side by side!
  \begin{minipage}[b]{5cm}
    \vspace{7cm}
    \caption{The right picture}
  \end{minipage}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Regards
   Thomas Stuempfig
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