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ijourneaux
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Placement of Figures and Tables

Post by ijourneaux »

I am new to LaTeX but trying to learn quickly. I am using LaTeX (MikTeX on PC) to format a report based on data generated by Octave (similar to MatLab). I report has a header and footer 1 table and 3 figures, all on one page. I included a straw man figure showing what I would like the reprot to look like.

I have tried using {minipage} but I can't figure out how to get enough control over the positioning.

Any pointers would be appreciated.
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totalnewbi
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Re: Placement of Figures and Tables

Post by totalnewbi »

This will not help you too much, but if I were you I would use Octave to compile one figure that consists of all other figures and include it as one figure in Latex. Positioning Figures in Latex is quite complicated but feasible.
ijourneaux
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Re: Placement of Figures and Tables

Post by ijourneaux »

I had not thought of that approach so will give it a try. Thanks for the comment.
ijourneaux
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Re: Placement of Figures and Tables

Post by ijourneaux »

I looked at trying to arrange the figures using GNUPlot and that seemed to open up another can of worms.

So back to the original question, how do I use LaTeX to arrange the figures on a page in a fashion similar to that shown in the attachment.

Appreciate any help.
php1ic
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Placement of Figures and Tables

Post by php1ic »

A combination of the tabular environment and the multirow package will do what you want

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{multirow}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{cc}
    \begin{tabular}{ccc}
      Distance & Column 1 & Column 2\\
      1        &    0     &    0    \\
    \end{tabular} & \multirow{3}{*}{\includegraphics[height=0.5\textheight,width=0.1\textwidth]{thin_figures}}\\
    \includegraphics{figure1}\\
    \includegraphics{figure2}
\end{tabular}

\end{document}
Obviously you will have to manually adjust the scaling of each figure.
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