[Tex/LaTex] Figure caption alignment problem

captionsgraphics

I have a problem with the captions of my figures in a paper I am writing using the IOP template. I am using the usual package \usepackage{graphicx}.

And the LaTeX commands are

\begin{figure}[!h]
\centering
\includegraphics[width= 7.5cm,height=6cm]{figures/fig1.pdf}
\includegraphics[width= 7.5cm,height=6cm]{figures/fig2.pdf}
\caption[width = \textwidth]{Bla bla bla}
\label{fig:1}
\end{figure}

which are pretty standard. The result I get is

As you can see the caption is not aligned with the figures, and it actually not even aligned with the text. What can I do?

Best Answer

Try the following:

\usepackage{graphicx, caption}
\usepackage{lipsum} % for dummy text only

\begin{figure}[!h]
  \centering
  \captionsetup{width=\linewidth}
  \includegraphics[width= 7.5cm,height=6cm]{figures/fig1.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width= 7.5cm,height=6cm]{figures/fig2.pdf}
  \caption[Second figure]{\lipsum*[2]} 
  \label{fig:1}  
\end{figure}

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\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Two figures side by side with text wrapping

You have to carefully adjust the dimensions of your image and the number of lines the wrap figure will extend ( for example [10] in \begin{wrapfigure}[10]{r}{5.5cm}).

An example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,wrapfig,lipsum}
%------------------------------------------
\begin{document}
This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. You may
embed tabular environment inside wraptable environment and customize as you like.
%------------------------------------------
\begin{wrapfigure}[10]{r}{5.5cm}
\rule{5.5cm}{7.1cm}
\caption{A wrapped figure}\label{wrap-fig:1}
\end{wrapfigure}
%------------------------------------------
This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. You may
embed tabular environment inside wraptable environment and customize as you like. This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. You may
embed tabular environment inside wraptable environment and customize as you like. This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. 
%
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{minipage}{6cm}
\centering
\rule{\textwidth}{3cm}
\caption{my figure}\label{fig:2}
\end{minipage}%
\end{figure}%

\lipsum[2-3]

Figure~\ref{wrap-fig:1} is a wrapped figure.
%------------------------------------------
\end{document}

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