Text Formatting ⇒ Minipage: align at 1st line of caption instead of last

[yiorgosb]

I have used this code to place two figures side by side.
However, the horizontal alignment is (by default I guess) at the last line of caption instead of the first. So if one caption has more lines the result is the other image to be moved upwards along with its caption, like:

*****img1*****...................
....................*****img2****
.................................
Fig1: foofoo foo.................
foofofofofo......................
foofofofofo.........Fig2:foofoo...

So the question is how to force the alignment at the caption first line, like:
*****img1*****......*****img2****
.................................
Fig1: foofoo foo....Fig2:foofoo..
foofofofofo......................
foofofofofo......................

[gmedina]

Hi,

you could use this code instead:

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\begin{figure}[ht]
  \begin{minipage}[t]{0.45\linewidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics{filename1}
    \caption{A test figure with a really long caption spanning several lines}
    \label{fig:figure1}
  \end{minipage}
  \hfill
  \begin{minipage}[t]{0.45\linewidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics{filename2}
    \caption{A test figure}
    \label{fig:figure2}
  \end{minipage}
\end{figure}

[yiorgosb]

so the alignment top or bottom is controlled by
begin{minipage}[ b/t ]

Thanks problem solved