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LaTeX and Figures: Sub-Figures

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As we have seen during the posterior post we are talking about images

  • You can check how to import an image here
  • You can learn about the figure environment here
  • You can check how to put side-by-side images here

Today we are going to learn how to create sub-figures

Why should I learn about sub-figures?

Well, sometimes there are some images, that are related and you want to put them together, not on different sections. Here I show you how to do it

Sub-Figures

Remember that you need to have the graphicx package imported

To create a sub-figure environment we need to import the subfigure package. Once we have done that the next step is to put our image in the subfigure command

\subfigure[caption]{\includegraphics[options]{nameOfFile.ext}}
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Where

  • caption is the caption of the image, not the general caption
  • options are height, width, angle
  • nameOfFile is the name of the file

The complete instruction would be

\begin{figure}[position]
    \alignment
    \subfigure[caption1]{\includegraphics[options]{nameOfFile1.ext}}
    ...
    \subfigure[captionN]{\includegraphics[options]{nameOfFileN.ext}}
\end{figure}

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If you do not remember the figure environment you can remember it here

An example is

code

Produces

Screenshot from 2021-03-23 11-01-35

As you can notice, if the total width of the images exceed the page margins LaTeX is going to reorganize them to create a suitable place for those images

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