General ⇒ Stacked Graphics caption width override?

[Klopstick]

I'm trying to put multiple images onto one page and have a caption for each. My approach is using stacked minipages with the \includegraphics in each one as follows:

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\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth]{Portrait.jpg}
\caption{\textit{This is the freaking caption stuff!}}
\end{minipage}}%
\hspace{0.04\textwidth}%
\centering
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth]{Portrait.jpg}
\caption{\textit{This is the freaking caption stuff!}}
\end{minipage}}\\[20pt]
\centering
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth]{Portrait.jpg}
\caption{\textit{This is the freaking caption stuff!}}
\end{minipage}}%
\hspace{0.04\textwidth}%
\centering
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth]{Portrait.jpg}
\caption{\textit{This is the freaking caption stuff!}}
\end{minipage}}%

The problem I run into is that with long captions it still uses my initial declaration of width=.75\textwidth that I put in \captionsetup at the top of the doc to use with full page images. This messes up my stacking and the caption text overlaps, etc. How can I override my setting for a particular caption?

I have also tried to do the multi-image using subfigures instead of stacking, but I can't get the a. b. c. labels to turn off. Is it defined somehow in \thesubfigure ? I already have \captionsetup{labelformat=empty, ...} ,but that seems not to apply to subfigures.

What's my best approach?

Bruce

[Kris]

Hi Bruce!

Your initial declaration of the caption-width with width=.75\textwidth
is connected to your actual 'page-text-width'...

A minipage defines a \textwidth for it's own - so You just have to repeat \captionsetup{width=.75\textwidth}
'inside' the minipage for adjusting the width!

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\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
%
\captionsetup{width=\textwidth}                             % actual width will be the minipage-textwidth of .45\textwidth
%
\includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth]{Portrait.jpg}
\caption{\textit{This is the freaking caption stuff!}}
\end{minipage}}%
\hspace{0.04\textwidth}%
\centering
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
%
\captionsetup{width=\textwidth}                             % actual width will be the minipage-textwidth of .45\textwidth
%
\includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth]{Portrait.jpg}
\caption{\textit{This is the freaking caption stuff!}}
\end{minipage}}\\[20pt]
\centering
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
%
\captionsetup{width=\textwidth}                             % actual width will be the minipage-textwidth of .45\textwidth
%
\includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth]{Portrait.jpg}
\caption{\textit{This is the freaking caption stuff!}}
\end{minipage}}%
\hspace{0.04\textwidth}%
\centering
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
%
\captionsetup{width=\textwidth}                             % actual width will be the minipage-textwidth of .45\textwidth
%
\includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth]{Portrait.jpg}
\caption{\textit{This is the freaking caption stuff!}}
\end{minipage}}%

Regards
Kris

[Klopstick]

That makes perfect sense. I tried so many things, but the very obvious relationship of page/minipage just never occured to me. Thanks again, Kris!

Bruce

[Klopstick]

Oh dear. NOW the pictures don't arrange themselves properly! They seem to want to stack vertically, but not even line up exactly above one another. I've tried making the minipage small enough to fit 2 wide on the page (I want a 2 pics wide by 2 pics high configuration if I can get it), but that doesn't change anything, they still string themselves raggedly down the page.

Picture 1 Picture 2
caption1 caption2

Picture3 Picture4
caption3 caption4

I'm getting errors as well (it pdf's OK without this section of code). Do I need some other include package? I think I'm beginning to lose my mind.

Bruce

[Kris]

Hi Bruce again...

...just move \centering from the outside
to the inside of Your minipage-environments:

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\begin{figure}
\centering                                                        % centers the whole figure-environment (here the 4 minipage array)
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
\centering                                                        % centers the graphic in the 1. minipage...
\captionsetup{width=\textwidth}                                   % actual width will be the minipage-textwidth of .45\textwidth
\includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth]{Portrait.jpg}
\caption{\textit{This is the freaking caption stuff!}}
\end{minipage}%
\hspace{0.04\textwidth}%
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
\centering                                                         % centers the graphic in the 2. minipage...
\captionsetup{width=\textwidth}                                   % actual width will be the minipage-textwidth of .45\textwidth
\includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth]{Portrait.jpg}
\caption{\textit{This is the freaking caption stuff!}}
\end{minipage}
\vspace{20pt}
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
\centering                                                         % centers the graphic in the 3. minipage...
\captionsetup{width=\textwidth}                                   % actual width will be the minipage-textwidth of .45\textwidth
\includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth]{Portrait.jpg}
\caption{\textit{This is the freaking caption stuff!}}
\end{minipage}%
\hspace{0.04\textwidth}%
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
\centering                                                         % centers the graphic in the 4. minipage...
\captionsetup{width=\textwidth}                                   % actual width will be the minipage-textwidth of .45\textwidth
\includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth]{Portrait.jpg}
\caption{\textit{This is the freaking caption stuff!}}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

Kris

[Klopstick]

Kris,

Well, that's a help, but it wasn't the actual problem. I don't quite know how it happened, but a had a double curley brace at the end of each \end{minipage}, like this \end{minipage}} . It caused some real problems. Even the order of the images would invert.I had copied the basic code from somplace, so I assumed it was right. Somehow, the extra brace got in there and ruined things. The log was of no help, and it was just a paranoia on my part that made me go start counting opens and closes.

Now I get to feel foolish. I'll doubtless have more problems, both real and imagined in the near future! Stay tuned!

Bruce

[localghost]

Why not use the subfig package? It does the whole layout for you in one figure environment.

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\begin{figure}[!p]
  \centering
  \subfloat[sub-caption1\label{subfig:subfig1]{body1}
  \subfloat[sub-caption2\label{subfig:subfig2]{body2}
  \subfloat[sub-caption3\label{subfig:subfig3]{body3}
  \subfloat[sub-caption4\label{subfig:subfig4]{body4}
% \caption{caption of the whole figure}\label{fig:figure}
\end{figure}

For further information refer to the documentation of subfig.