Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ How to keep \captionof from going to next column?

[rain]

Hello.

I want to have image with caption in left column and text in right. However latex keeps pushing this caption to 2nd column. How to I tell latex that image and caption should both stay in the same column?

\begin{multicols}{2}
\includegraphics[scale=0.35]{article.png}
\captionof{figure}{Sample screenshot}
\end{multicols}

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

i am not sure what exactly you are trying to achieve. Why are you using multicols?

Can you post a minimal working example?

[rain]

Here's minimal example. Had to zip it because I needed to include multiple files. See conference_poster_4.tex line 107

As you can see, Sample screenshot goes to 2nd column. But it should be in the same column with screenshot.

[Johannes_B]

multicols is not suited here. Better use minipages.

I removed everything unrelated to the issue, which really leaves a minimal example. And my, the default appearance of the class is ugly.

Code: Select all

\documentclass[portrait,a0paper,fontscale=0.285]{baposter} 
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\graphicspath{{figures/}} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption} 
\def\name{Software Name}% Note diff
\usepackage{lipsum} 
\definecolor{lightblue}{rgb}{0.145,0.6666,1} 
\begin{document}
\begin{poster}
{
headerfont=\Large\bfseries\scshape,%<=  Note the difference
columns=1,
headerheight = 0.13\textheight
}
{} 
{\bfseries%<= Note the difference
	\textsc{\Huge \name}\vspace{0.5em}} 
{\scshape University of ... \\ Institute of Computer Science\par}% <= Note the difference
{}

\headerbox{Website}{name=website,column=0, row=0, span=1,}{
	\begin{minipage}{.48\linewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}
\captionof{figure}{Sample screenshot}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}{.48\linewidth}
\lipsum[2-2]
\end{minipage}
}
\end{poster}
\end{document}