Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ automatic subfig figure arrangement (like subfigure)

[crobar]

Hello,

I am writing a scientific paper which I would like to view in both single column and double column format. I have a number of figures in the paper, some of which I wish to arrange as subfigures.

I had been using the old subfigure package to achieve this which was working fine, but had come to a set of two figures which I wished to display side by side, vertically aligned at their centres. Therefore I am attempting to instead use the newer subfig package, which has examples of this type.

When using the original subfigure package, I found that my subfigures would nicely rearrange themselves when switching between twocolumn and onecolumn mode. By this I mean, the subfigures lined up side by side in single column mode, but rearranged themselves to be on top of one another when using two columns, presumeably recognising there was insufficient space to have them beside one another.

I have found that the subfig package does not automatically have the same functionality and I must manually choose the orientation of my floats, otherwize, they overlay with the text of the right hand column.

Is there any way to achieve the same results with subfig as with subfigure in this respect?

I am declaring subfig with the caption = false and font=footnotesize as below, and most of my figures have been created using tikz pgf in case this has any bearing.

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\usepackage[caption=false,font=footnotesize]{subfig}

Thanks,
Richard

[sommerfee]

Unfortunately you did not read the forum rules and therefore haven't provided a minimal but complete example. So I can only guess:

The subfig package is removing space between the \subfloat commands, which is something the subfigure package is not doing. So if you write

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\subfigure{...}
\subfigure{...}

a space will be entered between those two subfigures. Because of this space a linebreak can happen, maybe this is what you mean by "rearranging"!?
When using the subfig package this space will be removed, therefore

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\subfloat{...}
\subfloat{...}

will always put both figures side-by-side.

[crobar]

Hello,

thanks for replying. Sorry for not supplying a minimal example, in this case I thought my problem was rather generic, so either someone would know the answer immediately or they would not.

Below is an example with lorem ipsum to demostrate what I mean

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\documentclass[twocolumn]{report}

\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage{tikz}


\begin{document}
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\begin{figure}
	\subfloat[a float]{
		\begin{tikzpicture}
			\draw (0,0) rectangle (6,6);
		\end{tikzpicture}	
	}
	\subfloat[another float]
	{
		\begin{tikzpicture}
			\draw (0,0) rectangle (6,6);
		\end{tikzpicture}		
	}
\end{figure}
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\begin{figure}
	\subfigure[a float]{
		\begin{tikzpicture}
			\draw (0,0) rectangle (6,6);
		\end{tikzpicture}	
	}
	\subfigure[another float]
	{
		\begin{tikzpicture}
			\draw (0,0) rectangle (6,6);
		\end{tikzpicture}		
	}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Note the 'rearrangement of the subfigures so one is vertically above the other, whereas the subfloats just spread into the column beside.

p.s. this code will generate errors as subfig attempts to redefine the \subfigure command, but on my system it still compiles and shows the problem.
Thanks,

Richard

[sommerfee]

Note the 'rearrangement of the subfigures so one is vertically above the other, whereas the subfloats just spread into the column beside.

It seems that I have guessed right - the reason for this is described in my posting above. So if you want to allow line breaks between \subfloats you have to put something between the \subfloats where LaTeX can make a line break. A simple space (or newline) was sufficient for \subfigure, but is not sufficient for \subfloat anymore.

[crobar]

Thanks, you're right, adding an \hspace{0}, as in the following code gave me the same results!

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\begin{figure}
	\subfloat[a float]{
		\begin{tikzpicture}
			\draw (0,0) rectangle (6,6);
		\end{tikzpicture}	
	}
	\hspace{0}
	\subfloat[another float]
	{
		\begin{tikzpicture}
			\draw (0,0) rectangle (6,6);
		\end{tikzpicture}		
	}
\end{figure}

Thanks,
Richard