Page Layout ⇒ Set the height of an expression

[LaTeX]

Hello,

I want to set two pictures on my titlepage beside each other, one with text above and below it and I want the other picture to have precisely the same height. I tried the following code, but apparently it doesn't work properly:

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\newlength{\height_1}
\settoheight{\height_1}{$\overset{\text{Text over picture 1}}{\underset{\text{Text below picture 1}}{\vcenter{\hbox{\includegraphics[height=5cm]{Picture_1.eps}}}}}$}

\[
\overset{\text{Text over picture 1}}{\underset{\text{Text below picture 1}}{\vcenter{\hbox{\includegraphics[height=5cm]{Picture_1.eps}}}}} \qquad \vcenter{\hbox{\includegraphics[height=\height_1]{Picture_2.eps}}}}
\]

Thanks!

[Johannes_B]

Please provide a minimal working example. I bet your are trying to do something pretty simple, but using the wrong approach to achieve it. Using math and overset seems to be a quite confused way to put boxes.

Hint: Package mwe provides some sample pictures you can use.

[LaTeX]

Thanks already for your answer, a minimal working example of my current code is

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\newlength{\Height}
\settoheight{\Height}{$\overset{\text{Text over picture 1}}{\underset{\text{Text below picture 1}}{\vcenter{\hbox{\includegraphics[height=5cm]{Picture_1.jpg}}}}}$}

\title{Minimal working example\\\vspace{\baselineskip}
\[ \overset{\text{Text over picture 1}}{\underset{\text{Text below picture 1}}{\vcenter{\hbox{\includegraphics[height=5cm]{Picture_1.jpg}}}}} \qquad \vcenter{\hbox{\includegraphics[height=\Height]{Picture_2.jpg}}} \]}

\author{Author}

\maketitle

\end{document}

I guess there is a better way to code this, does somebody have a recommendation? Thanks!

[cgnieder]

\newlength{\height_1} can't work because macro names cannot contain non-letters such as underscores or numbers.

Instead of \\\vspace{\baselineskip} you either want only \vspace{\baselineskip} (but you may need to ensure that the paragraph ends before) or \\[\baselineskip].

I can't test the following since I don't have the picture files but instead of abusing math commands I'd use (nested) {tabular}s:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\newlength\Height
\settoheight\Height{%
  \begin{tabular}{c}
    Text over picture 1 \\
    \includegraphics[height=5cm]{Picture_1.jpg} \\
    Text below picture 1
  \end{tabular}%
}

\title{
  Minimal working example \\[\baselineskip]
  \begin{tabular}{cc}
    \begin{tabular}{c}
      Text over picture 1 \\
      \includegraphics[height=5cm]{Picture_1.jpg} \\
      Text below picture 1
    \end{tabular} &
    \includegraphics[height=\Height]{Picture_2.jpg}
  \end{tabular}
}

\author{Author}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\end{document}

Regards

[LaTeX]

Great, thanks!

[LaTeX]

I just tried your solution (which looks really nice), but height is still not correct. I modified it such that the pictures are vertically centered and such that the two pictures including the text are horizontally centered. This is the minimal working example (with "example-image" it should also work at your computer):

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}


\begin{document}

\newlength\Height
\settoheight\Height{%
	\begin{tabular}{c}
		Text over picture 1 \\
		$\vcenter{\hbox{\includegraphics[height=2.5cm]{example-image}}}$ \\
		Text below picture 1
	\end{tabular}%
}

\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{cc}
	\begin{tabular}{c}
		Text over picture 1 \\
		$\vcenter{\hbox{\includegraphics[height=2.5cm]{example-image}}}$ \\
		Text below picture 1
	\end{tabular} &
	$\vcenter{\hbox{\includegraphics[height=\Height]{example-image}}}$
\end{tabular}
\end{center}

\end{document}

Does anybody has an idea?

[LaTeX]

Edit:

The function \settototalheight{}{} from the package "calc" works perfectly:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{calc}


\begin{document}

\newlength{\Height}
\settototalheight{\Height}{\hbox{%
	\begin{tabular}{c}
		\small Text 1 \\
		\small Text 2 \\
		$\vcenter{\hbox{\includegraphics[height=2cm]{example-image}}}$ \\
		\small Text 3 \\
		\small Text 4
	\end{tabular}%
}
}

\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{cc}
	\begin{tabular}{c}
		\small Text 1 \\
		\small Text 2 \\
		$\vcenter{\hbox{\includegraphics[height=2cm]{example-image}}}$ \\
		\small Text 3 \\
		\small Text 4
	\end{tabular} &
	$\vcenter{\hbox{\includegraphics[height=\Height]{example-image}}}$
\end{tabular}
\end{center}

\end{document}

Thanks for your answers!