[Tex/LaTex] Subfigure captions appear too close together

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Is there anyway to avoid what is observed below with the subfigure captions appearing too close together?

I would rather not use the minipage environment as a solution.

\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{caption}

\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{subfig}


\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[h!]
  \begin{subfigure}[t]{.5\textwidth}
  \centering
    \includegraphics[width=50mm]{image1.png}
    \caption{Test 1 - text filling out page so it is possible to view the how close the text regions get. I will keep going to show that in the second line.}
  \end{subfigure}%
  \begin{subfigure}[t]{.5\textwidth}
  \centering
    \includegraphics[width=50mm]{image2.png}
    \caption{Test 2 - text filling out page so it is possible to view the how close the text regions get}
  \end{subfigure}
  \caption{Full caption}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

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Best Answer

Just use a shorter width for the subfigure:

\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx} % demo is just for the example

\usepackage{caption}

\usepackage{subcaption}


\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[h!]
  \begin{subfigure}[t]{.45\textwidth}
  \centering
    \includegraphics[width=.9\textwidth]{image1.png}
    \caption{Test 1 - text filling out page so it is possible to view the how close the text regions get. I will keep going to show that in the second line.}
  \end{subfigure}\hfill
  \begin{subfigure}[t]{.45\textwidth}
  \centering
    \includegraphics[width=.9\textwidth]{image2.png}
    \caption{Test 2 - text filling out page so it is possible to view the how close the text regions get}
  \end{subfigure}
  \caption{Full caption}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Don't load subfig along with subcaption. Also specifying a fixed width like 50mm is not good, because you might exceed the width for the subfigure.

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[Tex/LaTex] Two figures side by side with text wrapping

You have to carefully adjust the dimensions of your image and the number of lines the wrap figure will extend ( for example [10] in \begin{wrapfigure}[10]{r}{5.5cm}).

An example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,wrapfig,lipsum}
%------------------------------------------
\begin{document}
This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. You may
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%------------------------------------------
\begin{wrapfigure}[10]{r}{5.5cm}
\rule{5.5cm}{7.1cm}
\caption{A wrapped figure}\label{wrap-fig:1}
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embed tabular environment inside wraptable environment and customize as you like. This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. 
%
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{minipage}{6cm}
\centering
\rule{\textwidth}{3cm}
\caption{my figure}\label{fig:2}
\end{minipage}%
\end{figure}%

\lipsum[2-3]

Figure~\ref{wrap-fig:1} is a wrapped figure.
%------------------------------------------
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] custom sub-caption and refs format for subfigures

I don't think using three different formats for the numbering of subfigures is good. Anyway, here it is:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup[figure]{labelsep=period,justification=centering,singlelinecheck=off}
\DeclareCaptionLabelFormat{rightparen}{#2)}
\usepackage{subfig}
\captionsetup[subfloat]{labelformat=rightparen}
\showcaptionsetup[uniq]{subfloat}
\usepackage{xparse}

\ExplSyntaxOn
\seq_new:N \g_akj_subfloat_seq
\NewDocumentCommand{\xsubfloat}{ m m }
 {
  \akj_subfloat:nn { #1 } { #2 }
 }
\NewDocumentCommand{\makexcaption}{o}
 {
  \caption{\IfNoValueF{#1}{#1~}Subfigures:~%
  \seq_use:Nnnn \g_akj_subfloat_seq {;~} {;~} {;~}}
 }
\cs_new_protected:Npn \akj_subfloat:nn #1 #2
 {
  % initialize
  \int_compare:nT { \value{subfigure} = 0 }
   { \seq_gclear:N \g_akj_subfloat_seq }
  % do the subfloat
  \subfloat[]{#2}
  % store the subcaption
  \seq_gput_right:Nx \g_akj_subfloat_seq { (\exp_not:N\textit{\alph{subfigure}}) ~ \exp_not:n { #1 } }
 }
\ExplSyntaxOff
\renewcommand{\thesubfigure}{\textit{\alph{subfigure}}}
\makeatletter
\def\p@subfigure{\thefigure\,}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\xsubfloat{subfigure A}{%
  \rule{100pt}{50pt}%
  \label{fig:subfig-a}%
}
\xsubfloat{subfigure B}{%
  \rule{100pt}{50pt}%
  \label{fig:subfig-b}%
}
\xsubfloat{subfigure C}{%
  \rule{100pt}{50pt}%
  \label{fig:subfig-c}%
}
\makexcaption\label{fig:figures}
\end{figure}

See Figures~\ref{fig:subfig-a}, \ref{fig:subfig-b} and~\ref{fig:subfig-c}.
\end{document}

The \makexcaption command has also an optional argument for text going before the list of subcaptions, so

\makexcaption[Some text.]

would produce

Figure 1. Some text. Subfigures: (a) subfigure A; (b) subfigure B; (c) subfigure C

Beware of unprotected end-of-lines in the arguments of \subfloat, that are the cause of your spurious spaces.

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