Rich Shepard wrote:
While I thought that by using two minipages I could place two figures
side-by-side, they're not displaying properly. Perhaps someone here can
help
me debug the problem.
Here's the scenario:
I defined a custom page size (tabloid, in landscape orientation) by
specifying the geometry package in the preamble:
\usepackage[paperwidth=17in,paperheight=11in,landscape]{geometry}
All I want on the page are two flowcharts drawn with PSTricks. I put each
flowchart in its own \begin{minipage} ... \end{minipage}, but I have not
defined a \pspicture environment within the minipages. If I put an \hfill
between the two minipages, there is no difference.
When I view the output in gv each flowchart is on a separate page.
Changing the gv page size to tabloid (and landscape) doesn't do any good.
A clue stick will be much appreciated.
Rich
I used your geometry settings to put to images side by side in
minipages. I used PDF rather than PS/gv (which I doubt changes anything
crucial), and I stuck a .png and a .jpg into the minipages since I don't
use PSTricks (again, I doubt this affects the results). What worked for
me was:
1. Insert two minipage boxes side by side at the start of a line. (I
set the document to skip rather than indent so that the line with the
boxes wouldn't indent, but I think it would work just as well if they
started a new line that wasn't a new paragraph.) Insert horizontal fill
between them to allow justification on the page.
2. Set the width of each box to 49 TextWidth%. In my experience, at
least with tables, LaTeX is not all that happy to see things add up to
100%, so force of habit I always leave a little slack.
3. Set the vertical placement to bottom for the content and top for the
box in both boxes.
4. Plunk in the images and set their widths to 100 TextWidth%.
HTH,
Paul
