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

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

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 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

Here's an example:

\starttext

\startplacefigure[location=nonumber]
\startfloatcombination[2*1]
    \startplacefigure[title={This is some text spanning two lines.
Some text spanning two lines.}]
        \framed[width=.4\textwidth,height=3cm]{}
    \stopplacefigure
    \startplacefigure[title={This is some text spanning four lines.
Some text spanning four lines. Some text spanning four lines. Some
text spanning four lines.}]
        \framed[width=.4\textwidth,height=3cm]{}
    \stopplacefigure
\stopfloatcombination
\stopplacefigure

\startplacefigure[location=nonumber]
\startfloatcombination[width=\textwidth,distance=5cm]
    \startplacefigure[title={This is some text spanning two lines.
Some text spanning two lines.}]
        \framed[width=.4\textwidth,height=3cm]{}
    \stopplacefigure
    \startplacefigure[title={This is some text spanning four lines.
Some text spanning four lines. Some text spanning four lines. Some
text spanning four lines.}]
        \framed[width=.4\textwidth,height=3cm]{}
    \stopplacefigure
\stopfloatcombination
\stopplacefigure

\input tufte

\stoptext

Mojca
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