I am using lyx and want to put two figures side by side. I could do it by inserting two minipages separated by a \hfill inside a float but it only allows me to use separate captions rather than subcaptions (I want it to be labeled as fig 1a, fig 1b). Also by inserting float inside a float, the 2nd figure appeared below the first one rather than in side. Any tips would be really helpful.
[Tex/LaTex] Side by side subfigures in lyx
lyxsubfloats
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You can put minipages inside a figure environment and get separate captions for each of them.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{mwe}
\begin{document}
How can I put two figures side-by-side? Not two sub-figures, but two actual figures
with separate "Fig.: bla bla" captions. A figure is supposed to spread over the
entire text width, but I have two figures which are narrow and long, and I need to
save the space in order to withstand the pages limit.
\lipsum
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{example-image-a} % first figure itself
\caption{first figure}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{example-image-b} % second figure itself
\caption{second figure}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[3]
\end{document}
I was surprised to discover two \captions in the same figure environment actually work as desired.
HT: LaTeX Matters via Google
To increase the space between the captions of the subfloats, one way is to add margin=<length> as an option to the subfig package, e.g.
\usepackage[margin=10pt]{subfig}
But this adds the margin to both sides of the caption. The package has many options for customizing the caption in that way, see the manual.
If you do not want fig. 2.2a, 2.2b, but fig. 2.2, 2.3, you can use two minipages within the figure environment:
\begin{figure}
\begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics{a}
\caption{Caption A}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics{b}
\caption{Caption B}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\end{figure}
Best Answer
The better approach I found, was to use subfigures (especially when you want to refer to subfigures as
1aor1b. From the LaTeX FAQ:Or if you could just use this code (this is LyX syntax; not LaTeX) from what I created (you may have to right click on the images and adjust the width % of the images):
For doing the same thing in pure LaTeX: