[Tex/LaTex] subfigure environment for 10 figures

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I am trying to put 10 figures using subfigure environment. I use 4×3 matricx to do that…but the last figure comes at the bottom of the page instead of going to the new page.

What can be done?

\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.25\textwidth}
    \centering
    \input{Figures_matlab/md_1}
    \caption{Mode-1}
    \label{fig:m1}
\end{subfigure}
    \hspace{1cm}
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.25\textwidth}
    \centering
    \input{Figures_matlab/md_2}
    \caption{Mode-2}
    \label{fig:m2}
\end{subfigure}
        \hspace{1cm}
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.25\textwidth}
    \centering
    \input{Figures_matlab/md_3}
    \caption{Mode-3}
    \label{fig:m3}
\end{subfigure}\\
 \vspace{1cm}
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.25\textwidth}
    \centering
    \input{Figures_matlab/md_4}
    \caption{Mode-4}
    \label{fig:m4}
\end{subfigure}
\hspace{1cm}
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.25\textwidth}
    \centering
    \input{Figures_matlab/md_5}
    \caption{Mode-5}
    \label{fig:m5}
\end{subfigure}
\hspace{1cm}
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.25\textwidth}
    \centering
    \input{Figures_matlab/md_6}
    \caption{Mode-6}
    \label{fig:m6}
\end{subfigure}\\
\vspace{1cm}
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.25\textwidth}
    \centering
    \input{Figures_matlab/md_7}
    \caption{Mode-7}
    \label{fig:m7}
\end{subfigure}
\hspace{1cm}
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.25\textwidth}
    \centering
    \input{Figures_matlab/md_8}
    \caption{Mode-8}
    \label{fig:m8}
\end{subfigure}
\hspace{1cm}
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.25\textwidth}
    \centering
    \input{Figures_matlab/md_9}
    \caption{Mode-9}
    \label{fig:m9}
\end{subfigure}
  \newpage
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.25\textwidth}
    \centering
    \input{Figures_matlab/md_10}
    \caption{Mode-10}
    \label{fig:m10}
\end{subfigure}
  \caption{Mode shapes 1-10}
\label{md_shps}
\end{figure}[enter image description here][1]

Best Answer

Similar question are quite often here (TeX.Se site), so it will be probably designate as duplicate ...

Your last figure had to be at bottom of other sub figures, since all are in the same float. Float can not span two pages! If you like to have last image on the next page, than you had to make two figures: in the first 3 x 3 images and last on the second. But why you should do this? It is enough place to have all images on the same page even if you enlarge them as I do:

You also can slightly reduce space between rows with images (now is to my taste to large). Since I haven't your images, I use example-image from package mwe to simulate them.

Code is slightly modified your code. Main difference is that I eliminate (worthless in your case) \newpage command in it:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,subcaption}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.95\hsize]{example-image}
    \caption{Mode-1}
    \label{fig:m1}
\end{subfigure}
    \hfil
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.95\hsize]{example-image}
    \caption{Mode-2}
    \label{fig:m2}
\end{subfigure}
        \hfil
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.95\hsize]{example-image}
    \caption{Mode-3}
    \label{fig:m3}
\end{subfigure}

    \vspace{1cm}
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.95\hsize]{example-image}
    \caption{Mode-4}
    \label{fig:m4}
\end{subfigure}
\hfil
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.95\hsize]{example-image}
    \caption{Mode-5}
    \label{fig:m5}
\end{subfigure}
\hfil
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.95\hsize]{example-image}
    \caption{Mode-6}
    \label{fig:m6}
\end{subfigure}

\vspace{1cm}
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.95\hsize]{example-image}
    \caption{Mode-7}
    \label{fig:m7}
\end{subfigure}
\hfil
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.95\hsize]{example-image}
    \caption{Mode-8}
    \label{fig:m8}
\end{subfigure}
\hfil
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.95\hsize]{example-image}
    \caption{Mode-9}
    \label{fig:m9}
\end{subfigure}

\vspace{1cm}
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.3\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.95\hsize]{example-image}
    \caption{Mode-10}
    \label{fig:m10}
\end{subfigure}
  \caption{Mode shapes 1-10}
\label{md_shps}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

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\newcommand\myincludegraphics[1]{%
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\begin{figure}
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The main idea is to put the left descriptions in a \llap (so it will stick out to the left, while pretending to 0pt wide) and the right descriptions in a \hbox to 0pt (these will pretend to be 0pt wide but stick out to the right --- by the way, \rlap doesn't work well in this case).

The rest is to make things easy to use. Package array allows to you automatically but arbitrary code around your entries using < and >. Furthermore, it allows you to define new column types. So I put all the \llap and \hbox magic in the column type C, and included the vertical positioning magic in there as well. This should make things easier to use.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{C}{%
      >{\llap\bgroup}c<{\egroup}%
      >{$\vcenter\bgroup\hbox\bgroup}c<{\egroup\egroup$}
      >{\hbox to 0pt\bgroup}c<{\egroup}%
    }%
\newcommand\timeline[1]{&\multicolumn{1}{c}{#1}&min}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \renewcommand\arraystretch{3}
  \begin{tabular}{C}
    description long&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&desc\\
    description&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&description very very extremely long\\
    description&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&desc\\
    description&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&descript\\
    \timeline{0\hfill 5\hfill\hfill 15\hfill\hfill\hfill 30}
  \end{tabular}
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\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \renewcommand\arraystretch{3}
  \begin{tabular}{C}
    description long&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&desc\\
    description very very extremely long&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&desc\\
    description&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&desc\\
    description&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&descript\\
    \timeline{%
      \makebox[0pt][c]{0}\hfill
      \makebox[0pt][c]{5}\hfill\hfill
      \makebox[0pt][c]{15}\hfill\hfill\hfill
      \makebox[0pt][c]{30}}
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{A caption}
  \label{fig:figure2}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

UPDATE 2: Automatic tick-placement (for fun) and fixed intercolumn spacing (for real):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{C}{%
      >{\llap\bgroup}c<{\egroup\hskip 1em}%
      @{}>{$\vcenter\bgroup\hbox\bgroup}c<{\egroup\egroup$}@{}
      >{\hskip 1em\hbox to 0pt\bgroup}c<{\egroup}%
    }%
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\newcommand\timeline[1]{%
  &\multicolumn{1}{@{}c@{}}\begingroup
  \global\let\do\firstT
  \docsvlist{#1}%
  \endgroup&min%
}
\def\firstT#1{\makebox[0pt][c]{#1}\xdef\previousT{#1}\global\let\do\otherTs}
\def\otherTs#1{%
  \count0=#1\relax \advance\count0-\previousT\relax
  \loop\ifnum\count0>0 \typeout{\the\count0}\advance\count0-1 \hfill\repeat
  \makebox[0pt][c]{#1}\xdef\previousT{#1}%
}    

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \renewcommand\arraystretch{3}
  \begin{tabular}{C}
    description long&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&desc\\
    description&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&description very very extremely long\\
    description&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&desc\\
    description&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&descript\\
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  \end{tabular}
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  \label{fig:figure1}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \renewcommand\arraystretch{3}
  \begin{tabular}{C}
    description long&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&desc\\
    description very very extremely long&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&description\\
    description&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&desc\\
    description&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&descript\\
    \timeline{0,2,4,6,8,10,20,30}
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{A caption}
  \label{fig:figure1}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

UPDATE: left-aligned left description

I don't know how to do this automatically, because one needs to know the width of the widest left description in advance. A semi-automatic solution is to set this length in advance, just before the tabular environment --- the column definiton then puts the left description in a \hbox of the given width.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{array}
\newlength\widestLeftEntryLength
\newcolumntype{C}{%
      >{\llap\bgroup\hbox to \widestLeftEntryLength\bgroup}c<{\hss\egroup\egroup\hskip 1em}%
      @{}>{$\vcenter\bgroup\hbox\bgroup}c<{\egroup\egroup$}@{}
      >{\hskip 1em\hbox to 0pt\bgroup}c<{\egroup}%
    }%

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\begin{figure}
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    description very very extremely long&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&description\\
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    description&\includegraphics{gfx/test}&descript\\
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