I'm trying to set up an environment to use for examples in my thesis document. I would like to increase margins, change the line spacing, open with "Example :", and close with $\Box$. Minipage works beautifully except I can't embed tables or figures within my examples.
This is what I have:
\newcounter{examplecounter}
\newenvironment{example}
{
\vspace{1.75em}
\begin{center}
\begin{minipage}[h]{0.85\textwidth}
\setlength{\parindent}{2em}
\refstepcounter{examplecounter}
\begin{oneandahalfspaced}
\noindent
\textbf{Example \arabic{examplecounter}:}
}{
\hspace{-1em}
$\Box$
\end{oneandahalfspaced}
\end{minipage}
\end{center}
\vspace{1.75em}
}
Any suggestions on how to accomplish what I'm looking for?
Best Answer
You cannot have a
figure
environment inside aminipage
because its a float, same counts fortable
. However you can include an image using\includegraphics
(graphicx
package) and also add a caption using thecapt-of
package:\captionof{figuree}{<the caption text>}
.See also this answer which explains float environments vs. their content as well.