I'm trying to put two (semi-unrelated) figures side by side using minipages. I don't particularly want to use a solution that would split the figures into Fig. 1(a) and Fig. 1(b), since they don't really belong together like that.
I'm using minipages, however the two figure captions have nearly no visible separation which obviously looks wrong. MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt]{memoir} %including in case it's relevant
\usepackage[margin=3cm]{geometry} % again, not sure if relevant
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\begin{minipage}{0.55\textwidth} %trying to force figs apart
\includegraphics{figs/fig1}
\caption{Abcdegy-oiutpwhc WQER measurements at x and y etc.}
% difficult text to linebreak nicely?
\end{minipage}
~
\begin{minipage}{0.55\textwidth}
\includegraphics{figs/fig2}
\caption{Abcdegy-oiutpwhc WQER measurements at x and y etc.}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
I've tried putting an \makebox
around both minipages together, but that didn't work, and I've looked for other solutions but most of them seem to relate to subfigures rather than two independent figures.
Best Answer
you declare width of both
minipage
that their summ is wider than is text width. solution i makes they narrower in introduce\hfill
between them:if you like to have smaller image, reduce width of
minipage
s, for example position them by\centering
and use\hfil
between them: