[Tex/LaTex] How to scale and align figures and tables in LaTex in a 3×2 grid like manner

Question

I'm writing a paper with LaTex and I would really like to get the following setup of figures and tables:

I'm not a LaTex expert so I thought maybe wiser people here might have good ideas how to implement this? Your help would save hours and hours of googling 😉 Thank you

Answer 1

solution with use of subfig package:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfig}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
    \begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
    \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{example-image-a}}
\hfil
    \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{example-image-b}}

    \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{example-image-a}}
\hfil
    \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{example-image-b}}

    \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{example-image-a}}
\hfil
    \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\linewidth]{example-image-b}}
\caption{2 x 3 grid of images}
    \label{fig:my figure}
    \end{figure}
\lipsum[11]
\end{document}

solution with use subcaption package:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subcaption}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
    \begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
    \begin{subfigure}{0.45\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}
    \caption{}
    \end{subfigure}
\hfil
    \begin{subfigure}{0.45\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-b}
    \caption{}
    \end{subfigure}

    \begin{subfigure}{0.45\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}
    \caption{}
    \end{subfigure}
\hfil
    \begin{subfigure}{0.45\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-b}
    \caption{}
    \end{subfigure}

    \begin{subfigure}{0.45\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}
    \caption{}
    \end{subfigure}
\hfil
    \begin{subfigure}{0.45\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-b}
    \caption{}
    \end{subfigure}
\caption{2 x 3 grid of images}
    \label{fig:my figure}
    \end{figure}
\lipsum[11]
\end{document}

both solution gives the same result:

in case, that you like to have sub figures numbering in order of columns, than you the simplest solution is enclosed sub figures or sub floats in table:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\newcolumntype{C}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
    \begin{figure}[!ht]
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{CC}
    \begin{subfigure}{\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}
    \caption{}
    \end{subfigure}

    \begin{subfigure}{\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-b}
    \caption{}
    \end{subfigure}

    \begin{subfigure}{\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-c}
    \caption{}
    \end{subfigure}
&
    \begin{subfigure}{\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}
    \caption{}
    \end{subfigure}

    \begin{subfigure}{\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-b}
    \caption{}
    \end{subfigure}

    \begin{subfigure}{\linewidth}
        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-c}
    \end{subfigure}
\end{tabularx}
\caption{2 x 3 grid of images}
    \label{fig:my figure}
    \end{figure}
\lipsum[11]
\end{document}