On 04. nov. 2011 18:40, Rich Shepard wrote:
My document has many figures. They can be grouped into 6 figures per section. Because each figure contains a lot of information there is a lower limit to the size that allows them to be effectively displayed. What strategies have folks used to prevent each figure from being floated to a separate page when there are several figures grouped together?
If I want several figures to stay together, I put all of them inside the same float. So I have one float, inside the float are several minipages, with one image and one caption in each minipage. Each caption gets a separate figure number. To get figures side-by-side, the minipages are 50% of line length, (or 33% of line length to get 3 figures side-by-side.) Using subfigure is not necessary for this, but it is useful if you want references to figure 1a, figure 1b and so on. Minipages can also be put above each other, to get figures that follow each other on the page. If I have some text I want to be with the figure, I type it inside the float. To get text beside the graphic, I use a minipage. To get text under the image, I just type between the image and the caption. Helge Hafting
