Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Inserting a Figure within a Figure caption

[lankks]

Hi everyone,

First time posting here,

I've got a figure, which has two different symbols with two different trendlines through in it. I can't have a figure legend, because that's against convention, so the usual thing to do is insert the symbol next to the description in the caption.

I've got the appropriate symbols in little EPS files, which I want to insert in the X Y Z W slots below. I tried using \begin{figure}[H] includegraphics[scale=0.9\textheight]{X} \end{figure}, but all I get is syntax.

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\begin{landscape}
\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \subfloat{\label{fig:sp}\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{sptime}}~
  \subfloat{\label{fig:ulm}\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{ulmtime}}
  \caption{Blah Blah Blah Blah (X) Blu Blu Blu Blu (Y) BLAH BLAH BLAH (Z) BLU BLU BLU BLU (W)}
  \label{fig:devtimes}
\end{figure}
\end{landscape}

Really have no idea how to do this one, tried researching to no avail. So the question is: Is it possible to insert little pictures inside figure captions that are in line with the text?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi lankks,

welcome to the board!

Is it possible to insert little pictures inside figure captions that are in line with the text?

You could directly use \includegraphics within the \caption command. Use \protect to prevent early expansion of the \includegraphics command, when it is written to the .lof file.

Here's an example. I just used the demo option for the graphicx package, such that images are replaced by black filled rectangles, for demonstration purpose, so we don't need to provide additional image files.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\listoffigures
\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics{bigpicture}
  \caption{A caption with a small picture:
    \protect\includegraphics[width=1.5ex,height=1.5ex]{smallpicture}}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Stefan