Re: [NTG-context] Placing (numbered) figures side-by-side

4 Jul 2014


      On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
 wrote:
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Am 04.07.2014 um 10:21 schrieb Mojca Miklavec :
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Hi,
When placing figures side-by-side I usually use
\placefigure[force][label]{}{\startcombination[2*1]
{\externalfigure[A]}{Some description of A}
{\externalfigure[B]}{Some description of B}
\stopcombination}
But this time I would like to get two separate figures with two separate titles:
[figure]                            [figure]
Figure 1.1: Long description of A   Figure 1.2: Long description of B
with those long descriptions being "justified" (they split in multiple
line already), not centered.
What is the best way to achieve that?
Use the floatcombination environment.
\useMPlibrary[dum]
\starttext
\startplacefigure[location=nonumber]
        \startfloatcombination%[width=\textwidth,distance=0pt]
                \startplacefigure[title={Some description of A}]
                        %\externalfigure[A][width=4cm]
                        \framed[frame=off,offset=none,width=.5\textwidth]{\externalfigure[A][width=4cm]}
                \stopplacefigure
                \startplacefigure[title={Some description of B}]
                        %\externalfigure[B][width=4cm]
                        \framed[frame=off,offset=none,width=.5\textwidth]{\externalfigure[B][width=4cm]}
                \stopplacefigure
        \stopfloatcombination
\stopplacefigure
\stoptext
Thank you, but there are some serious problems with the layout. I
managed to find some very dirty workaround, so I can get the desired
effect, but nonetheless:

- titles are wider than the figure, so titles from left and right
overlap; what I ended up doing was
    \framed[frame=off,offset=none,width=.2\textwidth]{\externalfigure[cow][width=.4\textwidth]}

- titles are of different length (and have a different number of
lines), so I need to manually add \crlf in one of the titles to
achieve equal height and proper alignment;

- width=... and distance=... are weird; once I set some width,
distance only shifts the right figure outside of the page margin

Mojca