[Tex/LaTex] Placing text between two figures

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I am just starting in LaTex and I am trying to create a custom titlepage. In our laboratory reports we are asked to have something similar to the image attached. I am having problems aligning the text between the two figures. How can I align it like in the image?

Since I am making the title page from scratch I have two .tex documents like so:

File test_title.tex

\documentclass[pdftex,12pt,letterpaper]{report}

\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}}

\begin{document}

\input{./title.tex}
\end{document}

File title.tex

\begin{titlepage}

\begin{flushleft}
\includegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{./UPRMlogo}
\end{flushleft}

\begin{flushright}
\includegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{./UPRMlogo}
\end{flushright}

\begin{center}
University of Puerto Rico \\
Mayaguez Campus\\
Mechanical Engineering Department\\
\end{center}

\end{titlepage}

Example

Best Answer

Here is one way, but there are many options. Note the use of % characters to prevent spurious spaces from causing overfull \hbox warnings.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
\noindent% just to prevent indentation narrowing the line width for this line
\includegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{example-image-a}%
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.7\textwidth}
\centering
University of Puerto Rico \\
Mayaguez Campus\\
Mechanical Engineering Department
\end{minipage}%
\includegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth]{example-image-b}
\end{document}

enter image description here

Update

Having said the above, I couldn't resist the challenge to implement at least a trivial implementation of this. The idea is simple: we offer a command that takes 3 arguments: a page number, a column number, and a float body, e.g.

\multicolfloat{1}{2}{\centering
                     \includegraphics{cat.eps}
                     \captionof{figure}{A test}
                    }

The above is using \captionof from the caption package as this isn't really a float so \caption would complain unless it gets modified which I didn't do.

This command can be used inside a multicols environment and asks for this float to be placed on top column 2 on page 1. So a lot of manual work if the amount of text is changing or the multicols environment is moved. This could be done differently and better, but that is more than I had time for.

So here is the code and a test file, a mixture of patching some hooks into multicol and implementing the new functionality as a LaTeX3 property list.

\begin{filecontents}{multicol-floats.sty}
% Author Frank Mittelbach, 2012, License LPPL
%
% Providing column floats for multicol (proto-type implementation)
%
% Document Interface:   
%
%   \multicolfloat <page-num> <col-num> <float-body>
%
% To be used inside a multicols environment. 
% Can only place floats on full pages not balanced pages.
% Should probably be an environment but didn't do that this time around.
%
% Subject to change and ... No support :-)

\RequirePackage{etoolbox}
\RequirePackageWithOptions{multicol}

% Patching multicol to get a few hooks in as needed

\patchcmd{\multi@column@out}%
  {\setbox\count@ \vsplit\@cclv to\dimen@}%
  {\create@split@column \count@ \dimen@}%
  {\typeout{*** SUCCESS ***}}{\typeout{*** FAIL ***}}

\patchcmd{\multi@column@out}
  {\setbox\mult@rightbox \vsplit\@cclv to\dimen@}
  {\create@split@column \mult@rightbox \dimen@}
  {\typeout{*** SUCCESS ***}}{\typeout{*** FAIL ***}}

\patchcmd\endmulticols
  {\output}{\mc@check@unset@floats\output}
  {\typeout{*** SUCCESS ***}}{\typeout{*** FAIL ***}}

\newcount\mc@column

\patchcmd\process@cols
  {\relax}{\relax\mc@column\@ne}
  {\typeout{*** SUCCESS ***}}{\typeout{*** FAIL ***}}

\patchcmd\process@cols
  {\advance}{\advance\mc@column\@ne\advance}
  {\typeout{*** SUCCESS ***}}{\typeout{*** FAIL ***}}

% Implementation of new functionality

\RequirePackage{xparse}

\ExplSyntaxOn

\DeclareDocumentCommand \multicolfloat { m m m }
   {
     \mc_float:nnn {#1} {#2} {#3} 
   }


% Implementation

\cs_generate_variant:Nn \prop_gpop:NnNT { NxNT }
\cs_generate_variant:Nn \prop_get:NnNTF { NxNTF }

\prop_new:N \__g_mc_float_prop
\tl_new:N   \__l_mc_float_tl

\cs_new:Npn \mc_float:nnn #1#2#3 {
% safe a float body under the property key "page,col"
% if there already exist a float, combine them
   \prop_get:NxNTF \__g_mc_float_prop {#1,#2} \__l_mc_float_tl
       {
         \prop_gput:Nno \__g_mc_float_prop {#1,#2}
            {\__l_mc_float_tl
             \vskip \floatsep
             \vbox{\hsize\columnwidth #3}
            }
       }
       {
         \prop_gput:Nnn \__g_mc_float_prop {#1,#2}
            {\vbox{\hsize\columnwidth #3}}
       }
}

\cs_new:Npn \create@split@column #1#2 {
% look up any saved floats for current page and current column and if they exist
% add them to the to the top of box 255 and then split  off a column
  \prop_gpop:NxNT \__g_mc_float_prop
        {\thepage, \the\mc@column }
        \__l_mc_float_tl
        { 
          \vbox_set:Nn \c_two_hundred_fifty_five
             { \__l_mc_float_tl
               \vskip \textfloatsep
               \vbox_unpack_clear:N \c_two_hundred_fifty_five
             }
        }
  \vbox_set_split_to_ht:NNn #1 \c_two_hundred_fifty_five {#2}
}

\cs_new:Npn \mc@check@unset@floats {
% if the property list is not empty we haven't typeset all floats for some reason
% give error message and a display of the property list content (crude ... but there you go)
  \prop_if_empty:NF \__g_mc_float_prop
     { \PackageError{xmulticol}{Unset~ column~ floats,~ details~ below}
                    { }
       \prop_show:N   \__g_mc_float_prop
       \prop_gclear:N \__g_mc_float_prop
     }
}

\ExplSyntaxOff

\end{filecontents}

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum,caption,graphicx}

\usepackage{multicol-floats}

\begin{document}

\begin{multicols}{2}

\multicolfloat{1}{1}{TEST 1-1}

\multicolfloat{1}{2}{\centering
  \includegraphics{cat.eps}
 \captionof{figure}{A test}
}

\multicolfloat{1}{2}{TEST \captionof{figure}{Another test}}

\multicolfloat{2}{1}{TEST 2-1}

\lipsum %\lipsum

\end{multicols}
\end{document}

As a result one gets the following output on the first page with the three floats placed in column one and two:

enter image description here

With only one \lipsum in the test file, the multicols ends on the next page and thus the float for page 2 column one isn't typeset and we get the following error message as well:

! Package xmulticol Error: Unset column floats, details below.

See the xmulticol package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

l.136 \end{multicols}

? 
The property list \__g_mc_float_prop contains the pairs (without outer
braces):
>  {2,1}  =>  {\vbox {\hsize \columnwidth TEST 2-1}}.
<recently read> }

l.136 \end{multicols}

Not really great :-) but then this is just a proto-type anyway. In fact, if a multicols environment starts in the middle of a page then the float will appear on the top of the column of the multicol not at the top of the page. After all, the column sizes might differ, So that is rather a feature not a bug ... hey anything on this is a feature as I said totally unsupported in this shape --- enjoy nevertheless

[Tex/LaTex] Placing two figures (each having subfigures) next two each other

You can't put a floating object inside a minipage, but you can place minipages inside a floating object. I notice that you are using the obsolete subfigure package; you should use subfig or subcaption instead.

Below there are two approaches; the first one using the subfig package, and the other one using the subcaption package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subfig} % Needs subfig for this example.

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\begin{minipage}{.48\textwidth}
\centering
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=.4\linewidth]{fig1}}\quad
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=.4\linewidth]{fig2}}
\caption{First figure with two subfigures}
\label{fig:testa}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{.48\textwidth}
\centering
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=.4\linewidth]{fig3}}\quad
\subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=.4\linewidth]{fig4}}
\caption{Second figure with two subfigures}
\label{fig:testb}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

enter image description here

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

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\begin{minipage}{.48\textwidth}
\centering
\subcaptionbox{}{\includegraphics[width=.4\linewidth]{fig1}}\quad
\subcaptionbox{}{\includegraphics[width=.4\linewidth]{fig2}}
\caption{First figure with two subfigures}
\label{fig:testa}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{.48\textwidth}
\centering
\subcaptionbox{}{\includegraphics[width=.4\linewidth]{fig3}}\quad
\subcaptionbox{}{\includegraphics[width=.4\linewidth]{fig4}}
\caption{Second figure with two subfigures}
\label{fig:testb}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

enter image description here

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

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