[Tex/LaTex] Subfigure without using caption packages

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I'd like to create a figure consisting of two subfigures without using the caption or subcaption package since these two packages seem to destroy my template. But all the solutions for subfigures I could find in the Internet use these two packages. What other possibilities do I have? I want the two figures in a 2-column layout to cover both columns and each figure should be 1 column width.

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Using minipages and a new counter you can produce your subfigures without any packages at all; you can also define a command to provide subcaptions:

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{chngcntr}

\newcounter{mysfig}
\counterwithin{mysfig}{figure}

\renewcommand\themysfig{\thefigure(\alph{mysfig})}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\Scaption[1]{%
\refstepcounter{mysfig}%
\vskip.5\abovecaptionskip
  \sbox\@tempboxa{\small\themysfig~#1}%
  \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\hsize
    \small\themysfig~#1\par
  \else
    \global \@minipagefalse
    \hb@xt@\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil}%
  \fi
  \vskip\belowcaptionskip}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-2]
\begin{figure*}
\stepcounter{figure}
\begin{minipage}[t]{\columnwidth}
\begin{minipage}[b]{\columnwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}\par
\end{minipage}
\Scaption{this is the caption for the left subfigure}
\label{sfig:testa}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t]{\columnwidth}
\begin{minipage}[b]{\columnwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-b}
\end{minipage}
\Scaption{this is the caption for the right subfigure, spanning two lines}
\label{sfig:testb}
\end{minipage}%
\end{figure*}
\lipsum[1-5]
References to subfigures~\ref{sfig:testa} and~\ref{sfig:testb}

\end{document}

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It's the \caption command that resets the subfigure numbers and you don't provide one.

Actually, \caption performs \stepcounter{figure} and it's this command that does the business. So, if you really don't want to have a global caption, issue

\stepcounter{figure}\addtocounter{figure}{-1}

before \end{figure}. This will reset the subfloat counter but won't affect the figure counter, as the net change is 0.

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Inside subfigure, you're in horizontal mode, so you need to be careful of escaping your line ends. Where you have

\subfigure[\footnotesize x1.]{
  \includegraphics[width=0.24\textwidth]{x1.eps}
  \label{fig:x1}
}

you insert an additional space character every time a line doesn't end with %, and this is inserting just enough space to cause the boxes to overfill the line; see below.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[draft]{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure*}
  \centering
  \subfigure[x1.]{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.24\textwidth]{x1.eps}%
    \label{fig:x1}%
  }%
  \hfill
  \subfigure[x2.]{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.24\textwidth]{x2.eps}%
    \label{fig:x2}%
  }%
  \hfill
  \subfigure[x3.]{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.24\textwidth]{x3.eps}%
    \label{fig:x3}%
  }%
  \hfill
  \subfigure[x4.]{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.24\textwidth]{x4.eps}%
    \label{fig:x4}%
  }%
  \caption{xxxx.}
  \label{xxxx}
\end{figure*}
\end{document}

As a side-note, you shouldn't be manually changing the font size inside each caption. Use the caption package (etc.) to do this automatically across your whole document.

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