[Tex/LaTex] Figure and two subfigures side by side using caption/subcaption

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I've looked at many questions asked here but I don't find quite what I want.

Here's roughly the desired output :

i.e : On one line a Figure and side by side a Figure made of two subfigures. I don't really care about the alignment I just want it all to hold on one line.

I want to use the caption and subcaption packages. Here's what I've tried to do using the minipage environment.

\begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth}
            \begin{wrapfigure}{r}{\linewidth}
            \centering
            \captionsetup{width=0.98\linewidth}
            \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{path/figure1}
            \caption{Rainbow Gnome}
            \label{fig:gnome}
            \end{wrapfigure}
        \end{minipage}  
         \hspace{0.02\linewidth}    
        \begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth}
            \begin{wrapfigure}{r}{\linewidth}   
            \begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth}
                \centering
                \captionsetup{width=0.45\linewidth}
                \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{path/shack}
                \subcaption{Mystery Shack}
                \label{fig:shack}
            \end{minipage}%
            \hspace{0.02\linewidth}
            \begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth}
                \centering
                \captionsetup{width=0.45\linewidth}
                \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{path/landscape}
                \subcaption{Nice Landscape}
                \label{fig:landscape}
            \end{minipage}%
                \caption{Gravity Falls}
                \label{fig:gravity}
            \end{wrapfigure}
        \end{minipage}

It's certainly not elegant and I get the first figure before one paragraph and the second one after the said paragraph..

All ideas welcome !

Best Answer

No wrapfigure: just a couple of minipages.

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

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[htp]
\centering

\begin{minipage}[b]{0.38\textwidth} % almost 40%
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image}

\caption{Rainbow gnome}
\end{minipage}%
\hspace{\stretch{2}}%
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.58\textwidth} % almost 60%
\begin{subfigure}{0.49\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}

\caption{Mystery shack}
\end{subfigure}%
\hfill
\begin{subfigure}{0.49\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-b}

\caption{Nice landscape}
\end{subfigure}

\caption{Gravity falls}
\end{minipage}

\end{figure}

\end{document}

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Don't leave blank lines in between (a blank line tantamounts to \par, so the next subfigure starts a new paragraph), and remove spurious blank spaces (see the % after the first \end{subfigure}):

\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\begin{subfigure}{0.5\textwidth}
\centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{inclusion.jpg}
    \caption{inclusions}
    \label{fig:inclu}
\end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{0.5\textwidth}
\centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{deform}
    \caption{grain deformation}
    \label{fig:deform}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{filler text}
\label{fig:manmade}
\end{figure}

A complete example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}

\begin{document}

    \begin{figure}[H]
    \centering
    \begin{subfigure}{0.5\textwidth}
    \centering
        \includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{inclusion.jpg}
        \caption{inclusions}
        \label{fig:inclu}
    \end{subfigure}%
    \begin{subfigure}{0.5\textwidth}
    \centering
        \includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{deform}
        \caption{grain deformation}
        \label{fig:deform}
    \end{subfigure}
    \caption{filler text}
    \label{fig:manmade}
    \end{figure}

\end{document}

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The demo option for graphicx simply replaces actual figures with black rectangles; do not use that option in your actual document.

[Tex/LaTex] subcaption – caption beside figure

Rather than figure out how to make floatrow work, it was easier just to fake it.

It should be noted that the [t] option of subfigure refers to the first baseline, not the absolute top, so what it does is align the bottoms of the images instead of the captions. To align the tops you need to use \raisebox. In fact, there is no reason to put the images into subfigures at all (just the captions).

The \raisebox for the caption was to automatically produce a gap between rows.

\documentclass{scrartcl}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[font=footnotesize,figurewithin=none]{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\captionsetup{subrefformat=parens} % will result in references (typeset with \ref) like  1a  but sub-references (typeset with\subref) like  (a)
%\usepackage{subfig} % not compatible with subcaption

\newcommand{\sidecaption}[1]% #1 = label name
{\raisebox{\abovecaptionskip}{\begin{subfigure}[t]{1.6em}
  \caption[singlelinecheck=off]{}% do not center
  \label{#1}
\end{subfigure}}\ignorespaces}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \sidecaption{subfig:a}
  \raisebox{-\height}{\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{example-image-a}}

  \sidecaption{subfig:b}
  \raisebox{-\height}{\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{example-image-b}}%
  \hfill
  \sidecaption{subfig:c}
  \raisebox{-\height}{\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{example-image-c}}
  \caption{Caption for all subfigs: \subref{subfig:a},\subref{subfig:b}, \subref{subfig:c}}
  \label{fig}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

It should be noted that this is only one of many possible ways to format a side caption. The following does not use the subcaption package at all. OTOH, it does not write an entry for the \listoffigures either.

\newcounter{subfigure}[figure]% not needed with subcaption
\renewcommand{\thesubfigure}{\alph{subfigure}}

\newcommand{\sidecaption}[1]% #1 = label name
{\rule{0pt}{\abovecaptionskip}% create gap between rows
  \refstepcounter{subfigure}%
  \raisebox{-\height}{(\thesubfigure)~}% align
  \label{#1}\ignorespaces}

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