Page Layout ⇒ memoir | Figure and Text Side by Side

[arobase]

Trying to put a graphic and some text side by side with the requirement that the first line of text is aligned with the top of the picture.

Explored the subfigure and minipage solution, and the 2nd seems the the way to go (fn1). And I'm not tempted by multicon.

So, for the first, several problems:

• Tried all

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  begin[pos]{minipage}

  pairs for pos={t,c,b} and it doesn't display according to the requirement
• I want the included graphic to have an (unnumbered, btw) caption, but that would require a figure within the minipage and that seems a dead end.

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 \documentclass{memoir}
 \usepackage{hyperref}
 \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}

% First solution
% http://texblog.org/2007/08/28/placing-figurestables-side-by-side-subfigure/
%\usepackage{subfigure} % apparently conflicts with memoir

% Second solution
%http://texblog.org/2007/08/01/placing-figurestables-side-by-side-minipage/

\usepackage{graphicx}
  
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}    
    
\begin{minipage}[c]{0.5 \columnwidth}
%\begin{figure} % Error : not in outer par mode
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{mac_logo.png}
%\caption*{\url{http://www.groupwyse.com/Images/iPhone/Mac_os.png}}
%\end{figure}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[c]{0.5 \columnwidth}
{\raggedleft Wish a mac logo to the left,\\ and its top at the same height at the line just above\\ % BTW why does raggedleft
% stop on this line if not followed by \\ ?
}\end{minipage}
\vfill    
    
\clearpage
\end{document}

(fn 1)

In passing, let me mention that subfigure + memoir causes

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! LaTeX Error: Command \c@lotdepth already defined.
               Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.

[sommerfee]

I want the included graphic to have an (unnumbered, btw) caption, but that would require a figure within the minipage and that seems a dead end.

Take a look at the capt-of package, it allowes typesetting captions outside floating environments like figure. BTW: For an unnumbered caption, why you don't just typeset your caption heading as ordinary text?

In passing, let me mention that subfigure + memoir causes

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! LaTeX Error: Command \c@lotdepth already defined.
               Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.

The subfigure package is obsolete and was replaced by subfig by the same author. So drop the usage of the subfigure package and use subfig instead, which works fine with memoir, at least when loaded with package option "caption=false":

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\usepackage[caption=false]{subfig}

BTW: The memoir document class has build-in subfigure support, so usually there is no need to use an extra package for that.

[arobase]

Thanks.

I'm still not sure how to remove (a) in the caption of the the first subfigure:

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\documentclass[caption=false]{memoir}
 \usepackage{hyperref}
 \newsubfloat{figure}
 \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
 
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}    
   
%\begin{minipage}[c]{0.5 \columnwidth}
%\begin{figure} % Error : not in outer par mode

\begin{figure}
  \subbottom[logo]{\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{mac_logo.png}}
  \subbottom{\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{mac_logo.png}}
\end{figure}

\vfill    
   
\clearpage
\end{document}

Furthermore, I want to put some text in the right panel, not a graphic. One way to think of it is as the top of a resume/CV with a picture on the left (I know people rarely do that) and contact details on the right. This comes close except for the fact that 'Some Text' is aligned with the bottom of the logo, not the top.

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\begin{figure}
  \subbottom[logo]{\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{mac_logo.png}}
 \subfloat{
 \begin{minipage}[c]{0.5 \columnwidth}
\raggedleft Some Text
 \end{minipage}
 }
 \end{figure}

[arobase]

Come to think of it, using the left and right header of fancyhdr might be more suitable for this problem.

[arobase]

Specifying a common height for the minipages solves the problem.