[Tex/LaTex] How to place two figures side by side in multicol

multicolpositioningsubfloats

I would like to place two figures side by side in two column environment (Both figures fitting withing a single column)
I have read the answers but it's not working for me. The figure is placed on the next page.

ME:

   \documentclass[a0,portrait]{a0poster}
   \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
   \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
   \usepackage{multicol}
   \columnsep=100pt 
   \columnseprule=3pt 
   \usepackage[czech, english]{babel}
   \usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor} 
   \usepackage{palatino} % Uncomment to use the Palatino font
   \usepackage{subfig}
   \usepackage{graphicx} 
   \graphicspath{{figures/}} % Location of the graphics files
   \usepackage{booktabs} % Top and bottom rules for table
   \usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}
   \usepackage{amsfonts, amsmath, amsthm, amssymb} 
   \usepackage{wrapfig} % Allows wrapping text around tables and figures
   \usepackage{lipsum}

   \begin{document}
   \title{Morphological key at Afrilex 2014} % Poster

   \begin{multicols}{2} 
   \section*{Introduction - Icelandic and Czech?}
   \lipsum[3-6]
  \begin{figure*}[b!]
  \centering

  \subfloat[Market revenue]{%
  \includegraphics[width=10cm]{online_dict2.png}%
  \label{fig:evaluation:revenue}%
  }\qquad
  \subfloat[Average price]{%
  \includegraphics[width=10cm]{online_dict2.png}%
  \label{fig:evaluation:avgPrice}%
  }

  \caption{Simulation results}
  \end{figure*}

  \subsection*{Types of Media}
  \end{multicols}
  \end{document}

Best Answer

You can place the figures inside a minipage of width \columnwidth (and no indent):

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\documentclass[a0,portrait]{a0poster}
\usepackage{multicol}
\columnsep=100pt 
\columnseprule=3pt 
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\title{Morphological key at Afrilex 2014} % Poster

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{multicols}{2} 
  \section*{Introduction - Icelandic and Czech?}
  \lipsum[3-6]

  \noindent
  \begin{minipage}{\columnwidth}
    \makeatletter
    \newcommand{\@captype}{figure}
    \makeatother
    \centering
    \subfloat[Market revenue]{%
      \includegraphics[width=10cm]{example-image-a}%
      \label{fig:evaluation:revenue}%
    }\qquad%
    \subfloat[Average price]{%
      \includegraphics[width=10cm]{example-image-b}%
      \label{fig:evaluation:avgPrice}%
    }
    \caption{Simulation results}
  \end{minipage}

  \subsection*{Types of Media}
\end{multicols}
\end{document}

Since \subfloats require to know which float environment they're in, setting the \@captype explicitly is necessary. caption provides \captionof{<type>}{<caption>}, but it doesn't help for \subfloat.

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