[Tex/LaTex] Display certain objects in a document side by side

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What is the standard way in latex to display certain objects (e.g. pictures, tables, etc.) side by side, instead of one below the other?
I thought about using the tabular environment for this, but I'm not sure if there isn't a better way.

Best Answer

The standard LaTeX way is minipages.

In order to make sure that your multiple minipages end up on the same line, their horizontal dimensions have to add up to something less than the current \textwidth. So if I care about lining them up, I often use multiples of \textwidth as the minipage widths. Such as

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum} % just for demonstration

\begin{document}
\noindent
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.3\textwidth}
  \lipsum[1]
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.6\textwidth}
  \lipsum[2-3]
\end{minipage}

\end{document}

The \hfill control sequence inserts an infinitely stretchable amount of glue between the minipages—effectively pushing the second one all the way to the edge of the line. Since the total widths of the boxes is 0.9\textwidth, you get a separation of 0.1\textwidth between the minipages.

Another method is the multicol package, but that's mainly for columns of text side-by-side.

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[Tex/LaTex] 2D and 3D Tikz pictures side-by-side

2nd version:

So the problem seems to include different figures in one pdf file. There are several solutions but as you use standalone class and TiKZ you just need to include tikz as an option to your original example (\documentclass[tikz,varwidth,border=5pt]{standalone}) and will get a pdf file with as many pages as tikzpictures. You can include figures in your text with \includegraphics[page=...]{...}.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\begin{subfigure}{.5\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[page=1]{sensetitol-3}
\subcaption{Subfigure}
\end{subfigure}
\begin{subfigure}{.5\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[page=2]{sensetitol-3}
\subcaption{Subfigure}
\end{subfigure}
\end{figure}

\lipsum[2]
\end{document}

enter image description here

Original answer:

I don't understand the problem you have with the journalgraphics requirements but if you want to place both figures side by side with varwidth option one possible solution can be to draw both figures inside the same tikzpicture with one of them inside a properly placed scope.

Note: shift values have been found by trial and error.

\documentclass[varwidth,border=5pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tikz-3dplot}

\usetikzlibrary{arrows}
\usetikzlibrary{3d}
\tikzset{>=latex}

\begin{document}

\tdplotsetmaincoords{90}{90}
\tdplotsetrotatedcoords{0}{20}{70}
\begin{tikzpicture}

\draw[-] (0,0)--(3,0)--(3,2)--(0,2)--cycle;
\draw[-] (0,2)--(3,2)--(3,4)--(0,4)--cycle;
\draw[-] (0,4)--(3,4)--(3,6)--(0,6)--cycle;
\node at (-0.4,5.7) {{\large a}};
\begin{scope}[tdplot_rotated_coords, xshift=6cm, yshift=2.5cm]
\draw[->, thick] (0,0,0) --++ (20:3);
\draw[->] (0,0,0) --++ (60:2);

\draw[dashed] (0,0,-2) circle(2);
\draw[dashed] (0,0,0) circle(2);
\draw[dashed] (0,0,2) circle(2);

\node[left] at (0,0,0) {{ $i$}};
\node[right] at (2.2,0.15,-0.05) {{\large {\bf M}}};
\node[below] at (0.5,0.5,0) {{\large $\phi_i$}};

\draw[->] (0,0,-2) -- (0,0,3.5);
\node[above] at (0,0,3.5) {{\large $z$}};

\node at (-2,0,3.5) {{\large b}};
\end{scope}

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

enter image description here

[Tex/LaTex] How to assign captions for two tables in LaTeX

using tabularx for outer table and use table environment:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[skip=1ex]{caption}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\newcolumntype{C}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}

\begin{document}
    \begin{table}[htb]
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{CC}
\caption{The first table}
    \begin{tabular}{ccc}
    A & B & C \\
    \cline{1-3}
    1 & 2 & 3 \\
    \cline{1-3}
    C & B & A \\
    \end{tabular}
&
\caption{The second table}
    \begin{tabular}{ccc}
    D & E & F \\
    \cline{1-3}
    4 & 5 & 6 \\
    \cline{1-3}
    F & E & D \\
    \end{tabular}
\end{tabularx}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

addendum: in cases, when one table is wider than other and wider than the column width, you can manually accommodate columns width of the outer table. for this is more appropriate to use tabular* than tabularx table environment:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[skip=1ex]{caption}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{#1}}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
    \begin{table*} 
\begin{tabular*}{\linewidth}{C{\dimexpr0.3\linewidth-2\tabcolsep}
                             C{\dimexpr0.7\linewidth-2\tabcolsep}}
\caption{The first table}
    \begin{tabular}{ccc}
    \hline
    A & B & C \\
    \hline
    1 & 2 & 3 \\
    C & B & A \\
    \hline
    \end{tabular}
&
\caption{The second table}
    \begin{tabular}{*{14}{c}}
    \hline
    D & E & F & G & H & I & J & D & E & F & G & H & I & J   \\
    \hline
    4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 & 9 & 0 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 & 9 & 0   \\
    J & I & H & G & F & E & D & J & I & H & G & F & E & D   \\
    \hline
    \end{tabular}
\end{tabular*}
    \end{table*}
\lipsum\lipsum
\end{document}

which gives:

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