[Tex/LaTex] Align text in minipage at same height

minipagevertical alignment

I need to put some text at the same height in my page, and I'm trying to do it with a minipage, but I'm not able to do it since they get centre-aligned.

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This is the LaTeX for the figure I've uploaded:

\begin{minipage}[]{0.5\textwidth}
    \begin{flushleft}
        {\large \textit{Author}:\vspace*{0.5cm} \\ 
        Me}
    \end{flushleft}
\end{minipage}%
%
\begin{minipage}[]{0.5\textwidth}
    \begin{flushright}
        {\large \textit{Supervisor}:\vspace*{0.5cm} \\ 
        Him}\\
        \vspace*{0.5cm}
        {\large \textit{Advisor}:\vspace*{0.5cm} \\ 
        Other Guy}
    \end{flushright}    
\end{minipage}%

Can you please explain me what I'm doing wrong?

Best Answer

Use [t] as the option -- \begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
  \begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
    \begin{flushleft}
        \large \textit{Author}:\vspace*{0.5cm} \\
        Me
    \end{flushleft}
\end{minipage}%
%
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
    \begin{flushright}
        \large \textit{Supervisor}:\vspace*{0.5cm} \\
        Him\\
        \vspace*{0.5cm}
        \large \textit{Advisor}:\vspace*{0.5cm} \\
        Other Guy
    \end{flushright}
\end{minipage}%
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] tikz-figures in minipage: Captions at the same height and top alignment

Here is a solution using minipage alignment, baseline option of TikZ picture and the special node current bounding box.

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document} 
\begin{figure}
  \begin{minipage}[t]{.5\linewidth}
    \centering
    \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline=(current bounding box.north)]
      \draw [fill=black] (0,0) rectangle (1,1);
    \end{tikzpicture}
  \end{minipage}%
  \begin{minipage}[t]{.5\linewidth}
    \centering
    \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline=(current bounding box.north)]
      \draw [fill=black] (0,0) rectangle (1,3);
    \end{tikzpicture}
  \end{minipage}
  \begin{minipage}[t]{.5\linewidth}
    \caption{a square}
    \label{fig:square}
  \end{minipage}%
  \begin{minipage}[t]{.5\linewidth}
    \caption{a rectangle}
    \label{fig:rect}
  \end{minipage}
\end{figure}
Figures \ref{fig:square} and \ref{fig:rect} demonstrate the difference
between a square and a rectangle.
\end{document}

To use this code in a macro (as in Gonzalo Medina's answer), you may use the every picture style:

\newcommand\SideBySide[6]{
  \begin{figure}
    \tikzset{every picture/.style={baseline=(current bounding box.north)}}
    \begin{minipage}[t]{.5\linewidth}
      \centering #1%
    \end{minipage}%
    \begin{minipage}[t]{.5\linewidth}
      \centering #4%
    \end{minipage}
    \begin{minipage}[t]{.5\linewidth}
      \caption{#2}
      \label{#3}
    \end{minipage}%
    \begin{minipage}[t]{.5\linewidth}
      \caption{#5}
      \label{#6}
    \end{minipage}
  \end{figure}
}

Syntax:

\SideBySide{<figure1>}{<caption1>}{<label1>}{<figure2>}{<caption2>}{<label2>}

Example:

\SideBySide{
\begin{tikzpicture}
    \draw [fill=black] (0,0) rectangle (1,1);
  \end{tikzpicture}
}{a square}{fig:square}{
\begin{tikzpicture}
    \draw [fill=black] (0,0) rectangle (1,3);
  \end{tikzpicture}
}{a rectangle}{fig:rect}

[Tex/LaTex] Minipage maximum height

Maybe this is what you want:

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{xparse}

\newsavebox{\strangeminipagebox}
\NewDocumentEnvironment{strangeminipage}{O{\textwidth}}
 {%
  \begin{lrbox}{\strangeminipagebox}
  \begin{minipage}[t]{\dimexpr#1-2\fboxsep-2\fboxrule}%
 }
 {%
  \end{minipage}\end{lrbox}%
  \ifdim\dimexpr\ht\strangeminipagebox+\dp\strangeminipagebox<62mm\relax
    \framebox[#1]{\usebox{\strangeminipagebox}}%
  \else
    \makebox[0pt][l]{%
      \fbox{%
        \vrule height \ht\strangeminipagebox
               depth \dimexpr62mm-\ht\strangeminipagebox\relax
               width 0pt
        \hspace{\dimexpr#1-2\fboxsep-2\fboxrule}%
      }%
    }%
    \makebox[#1]{\usebox{\strangeminipagebox}}%
  \fi
 }

\begin{document}

\noindent
\begin{strangeminipage}
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{strangeminipage}

\bigskip

\noindent
\begin{strangeminipage}[.5\textwidth]
Bar
\end{strangeminipage}

\end{document}

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