[Tex/LaTex] vertical space between figures in one column

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I want to merge 3 images into one figure in one column. How can I control the vertical space between figures? I want to have no space or negative space (overlap) between the figures.

Note: I want different amount of space between figures. For example no space between 1st and 2nd image and 1cm space between 2nd and 3rd image. And tabular is not necessary.

Code I am using

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
  \begin{tabular}{@{}c@{}}
    \includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{example-image} \\
    \includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{example-image} \\
    \includegraphics[width=.2\textwidth]{example-image}
  \end{tabular}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Best Answer

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
 \setlength\lineskip{0pt}

    \includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{example-image}

    \includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{example-image}

    \includegraphics[width=.2\textwidth]{example-image}

\end{figure}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to inject the proper amount of vertical space between captions and figures

You can modify the length \floatsep, as appropriate, which designates the vertical distance/length between floats at the top/bottom of a page. By "as appropriate" you would typeset your document and only worry about this (manual) fine-tuning at the end.

The following minimal example shows two pages that are duplicate, except for a modification in \floatsep to show the effect of modifying the float separation.

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\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
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\begin{figure}[t]
  \centering \includegraphics{figure1}
  \caption{This is a figure}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[t]
  \centering \includegraphics{figure2}
  \caption{This is another figure}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[2]

\clearpage

\setlength{\floatsep}{1pt}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{figure}[t]
  \centering \includegraphics{figure1}
  \caption{This is a figure}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[t]
  \centering \includegraphics{figure2}
  \caption{This is another figure}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[2]

\end{document}

From the layouts package documentation it is possible to see the lengths in terms of page/document float elements (p 21 onward):

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The default is 12.0pt plus 2.0pt minus 2.0pt which allows for a 2pt stretchability from 12pt.

It is also possible to modify the distance between the figure and the caption using the skip key-value from the caption package. Default is 10pt.

[Tex/LaTex] Space between paragraphs (local)

To insert local extra space between paragraphs, LaTeX offers the commands \smallskip, \medskip, and \bigskip which will add space of \smallskipamount, \medskipamount, and \bigskipamount (see the example for the default value of those when using the article class). Alternatively, you may add custom extra space with \vspace{<extent of space>}, using either (La)TeX units like pt, ex, etc. or a multiple of, e.g., \baselineskip. (Note: \smallskip & friends internally use \vspace.)

\documentclass{article}

\newcommand*{\sometext}{Hello, here is some text without a meaning. This
    text should show, how a printed text will look like at this place.
    If you read this text, you will get no information.}

\begin{document}

\verb|\smallskipamount|: \the\smallskipamount

\verb|\medskipamount|: \the\medskipamount

\verb|\bigskipamount|: \the\bigskipamount

\sometext

\sometext

\medskip

\sometext

\vspace{1.5\baselineskip}

\sometext

\end{document}

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