Re: Placing (numbered) figures side-by-side

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 04.07.2014 um 17:31 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 04.07.2014 um 10:21 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>
> Hi,
>
> When placing figures side-by-side I usually use
>
> \placefigure[force][label]{}{\startcombination[2*1]
> {\externalfigure[A]}{Some description of A}
> {\externalfigure[B]}{Some description of B}
> \stopcombination}
>
> But this time I would like to get two separate figures with two separate
> titles:
>
>             [figure]                            [figure]
> Figure 1.1: Long description of A   Figure 1.2: Long description of B
>
> with those long descriptions being "justified" (they split in multiple
> line already), not centered.
>
> What is the best way to achieve that?
>
>
> Use the floatcombination environment.
>
> \useMPlibrary[dum]
>
> \starttext
>
> \startplacefigure[location=nonumber]
>        \startfloatcombination%[width=\textwidth,distance=0pt]
>                \startplacefigure[title={Some description of A}]
>                        %\externalfigure[A][width=4cm]
>
> \framed[frame=off,offset=none,width=.5\textwidth]{\externalfigure[A][width=4cm]}
>                \stopplacefigure
>                \startplacefigure[title={Some description of B}]
>                        %\externalfigure[B][width=4cm]
>
> \framed[frame=off,offset=none,width=.5\textwidth]{\externalfigure[B][width=4cm]}
>                \stopplacefigure
>        \stopfloatcombination
> \stopplacefigure
>
> \stoptext
>
>
> Thank you, but there are some serious problems with the layout. I
> managed to find some very dirty workaround, so I can get the desired
> effect, but nonetheless:
>
> - titles are wider than the figure, so titles from left and right
> overlap; what I ended up doing was
>
> \framed[frame=off,offset=none,width=.2\textwidth]{\externalfigure[cow][width=.4\textwidth]}
>
> - titles are of different length (and have a different number of
> lines), so I need to manually add \crlf in one of the titles to
> achieve equal height and proper alignment;
>
> - width=... and distance=... are weird; once I set some width,
> distance only shifts the right figure outside of the page margin
>
>
> The caption can be forced to the same width as the image with the
> \setupcaption command,
> the vertical alignment of the images/text can be controlled with the
> location key but you have
> to ensure both images have the same height.
>
> \useMPlibrary[dum]
>
> \starttext
>
> \startplacefigure[location=nonumber]
> \setupcaption[figure][width=max]
> \startfloatcombination[location=top]
> \startplacefigure[title={Some description of A which spans multiple lines}]
> \externalfigure[A][width=4cm]
> %\framed[frame=off,offset=none,width=.5\textwidth]{\externalfigure[A][width=4cm]}
> \stopplacefigure
> \startplacefigure[title={Some description of B}]
> \externalfigure[B][width=4cm]
> %\framed[frame=off,offset=none,width=.5\textwidth]{\externalfigure[B][width=4cm]}
> \stopplacefigure
> \stopfloatcombination
> \stopplacefigure
>
> \stoptext

Perfect. \setupcaption[figure][width=max] or
\setupcaption[figure][width=.4\textwidth] does exactly what I want.

My figures are of the same height, so "location=top" is OK. (Can one
combine "location=top" with "[3*1]"?)
Even though a much nicer option would be to top-align the captions and
vertically center the images (or provide a location= option separately
for the image). The workaround to use \framed around the image
probably works though ...

Thank you,
    Mojca
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