General ⇒ align picture with sectioning heading

[Coen]

I think that my question more or less has something to do with this subject:

I have a piece of text and a very simple drawing (.JPG) that I want to place on the right side of the text with the top in line with the header of the paragraph. (so text left, picture right)

Thought I could just put a box around the picture and place that on the right side of the document. Not so!

this is what I came up with:

\subsubsection{Gravity Based Structures}
\framebox{3.1cm][r]{\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[width=3cm]{Plaatjes/GBS.jpg}
\end{figure}}
The concept of gravity foundations implies that dead load provides stability in all environmental conditions by means of its own gravity. Usually the foundation is made of a reinforced concrete hollow structure that is placed on a preparated sea bed. After positioning the structure is ballasted to provide the required stability.\\
This type of substructure is especially suited where the water depths are relatively shallow and environmental conditions benign. Of the ten reference wind farm three are built with GBSs\footnote{Lillgrund, Middelgrunden and Nysted} all located in the Baltic Sea.
Currently phase I of the Thornton Banks wind farm is being installed which consists of six 2,800T GBFs placed in water depths of approximately 25m. The concept is chosen based on the soil conditions that show a hard layer of limestone . Had the soil conditions allowed for driven monopiles this would have been the method of choice; being both financially and technically more attractive

again thanks for your help! It is highly appreciated!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Coen,

in general feel free to open a new topic for your question, that's usually better then perhaps mixing different subjects.
First, look at the syntax of \framebox, at least the brackets/braces are incorrect: opening {, closing ].
Second, don't use the figure environment, because the picture need not to float.

There are solutions like wrapfig for including pictures and wrapping text around them. But here I quickly typed some lines how one could make it, but that's just a "handmade" example, some values have to be changed perhaps:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,calc}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\subsubsection[Gravity Based Structures]{Gravity Based Structures\hfill
\parbox[t]{3cm+2\fboxsep+2\fboxrule}{\vspace{-1.4ex}
\fbox{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{Plaatjes/GBS.jpg}}}}
\vspace{-3cm}
\parbox{8.5cm}{
The concept of gravity foundations implies that dead load provides stability in all environmental conditions by means of its own gravity. Usually the foundation is made of a reinforced concrete hollow structure that is placed on a preparated sea bed. After positioning the structure is ballasted to provide the required stability.\\
This type of substructure is especially suited where the water depths are relatively shallow and environmental conditions benign. Of the ten reference wind farm three are built with GBSs\footnote{Lillgrund, Middelgrunden and Nysted} all located in the Baltic Sea.}
\smallskip

Currently phase I of the Thornton Banks wind farm is being installed which consists of six 2,800T GBFs placed in water depths of approximately 25m. The concept is chosen based on the soil conditions that show a hard layer of limestone. Had the soil conditions allowed for driven monopiles this would have been the method of choice; being both financially and technically more attractiv\ldots
\end{document}

Stefan

[gmedina]

Try using the wrapfig package (documentation mostly included in wrapfig,sty itself).

[Juanjo]

What about two aligned minipages? In the following code I've put a \rule instead of your graphic.

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\subsubsection{Gravity Based Structures}

\begin{minipage}[t]{0.6\textwidth}
  \vspace{0pt}
  The concept of gravity foundations implies that dead load provides stability
  in all environmental conditions by means of its own gravity. 
  Usually the foundation is made of a reinforced concrete hollow structure 
  that is placed on a preparated sea bed. After positioning the structure is
  ballasted to provide the required stability.
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.35\textwidth}
  \centering\vspace{0pt}
% \includegraphics[width=3cm]{Plaatjes/GBS.jpg} 
  \rule{3cm}{3cm}
\end{minipage}
\smallskip

This type of substructure is especially suited where the water depths are relatively shallow and environmental conditions benign. Of the ten reference wind farm three are built with GBSs\footnote{Lillgrund, Middelgrunden and Nysted} all located in the Baltic Sea.

Currently phase I of the Thornton Banks wind farm is being installed which consists of six 2,800T GBFs placed in water depths of approximately 25m. The concept is chosen based on the soil conditions that show a hard layer of limestone. Had the soil conditions allowed for driven monopiles this would have been the method of choice; being both financially and technically more attractive\ldots
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

just for info, I understood Coen wanted top alignment with the header, that's why I've put the picture into the \subsection command instead of ready-made solutions like wrapfig.

Stefan

[Coen]

Thanks a lot, such enthousiasm in helping to solve my problems!
I followed Stefans solution and it looks great. I only adjusted \smallskip to \medskip.


Thanks a lot. it is highly appreciated!


have a good weekend!

[Coen]

this might sound pathetic but I forgot about the caption, I tried every position but I think 2 things are going wrong:
- latex does not see the picture as a picture
-the positioning is not going as planned..

again, I hope you have the solutions ready!

I have tried the wrapfig but this does not line out at the level of the header... (I just should not bother about this but about the contents of the thesis....)

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Coen,

that should be no problem using \captionof provided by the caption package:

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\usepackage{caption}
...
\subsubsection[...\fbox{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{Plaatjes/GBS.jpg}}\captionof{figure}{text}}}

Stefan

[Coen]

Thanks, I'll start playing with it again!

Cheers,


Coen

[Stefan Kottwitz]

This topic was splitted from that older one because a new discussion was started with a different subject.

Stefan