The goal
My goal is to align side-by-side figures, tables, and text in minipages according to the top, middle and bottom of the largest such minipage. This makes it different (I believe) from the related links and references at the bottom, which detail the baseline of the surrounding text. I don't know which figure is largest.
For example, consider the following figure:
Notice that A and C are aligned to the bottom of C and that the fourth image is aligned to the middle of C, the largest image.
The algorithm for this is quite straightforward:
- put all of the
minipageenvironments in a box, and measure the height - then set each
minipageusing\begin{minipage}[b][MAX HEIGHT][<alignment>]so that each one is 'anchored' to the bottom, each one has the same height (cruicial), and then the position of each contents can be specified (t,c, orb).
The problem
The problem I'm having is when I try to caption these objects, the numbering falls down. I get, for example, the following:
Having read Is there a switch to turn off LaTeX counters from inside a box?, I thought I could fix it with \savecounters@ and restorecounters@.
The question
How can I modify my code so that the numbering of both figures and subfigures is as expected? Solutions would hopefully scale naturally to tables.
I'm very open to alternatives that accomplish the same idea; I have tried with the adjustbox package, for example, but no luck so far.
The MWE
% arara: pdflatex
% !arara: indent: {overwrite: yes}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[showframe=true,textwidth=12cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{environ}
\newsavebox{\vabox}
\makeatletter
\NewEnviron{verticallyaligned}{%
% temporarily set \vamaxheight to nothing during the measurements
\let\vamaxheight\relax
% temporarily disable figure numbering
\savecounters@
% measure the height of the body
\begin{lrbox}{\vabox}
\BODY%
\end{lrbox}%
% turn figure numbering back on
\restorecounters@
% set the height of the minipage box
\newlength{\vamaxheight}
\setlength{\vamaxheight}{\ht\vabox}
% output the body, which now contains the new height :)
\noindent\makebox[\linewidth][c]{\mbox{}\hfill\BODY\hfill\mbox{}}%
}
\begin{document}
\begin{verticallyaligned}
\noindent
\begin{minipage}[b][\vamaxheight][b]{.10\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\captionof{figure}{}
\end{minipage}%
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[b][\vamaxheight][t]{.15\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-b}
\captionof{figure}{}
\end{minipage}%
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[b][\vamaxheight][t]{.20\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-c}
\end{minipage}%
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[b][\vamaxheight][c]{.10\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image}
\end{minipage}%
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[b][\vamaxheight][t]{.20\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image}
\end{minipage}%
\end{verticallyaligned}
\begin{figure}[!htb]
\begin{verticallyaligned}
\begin{subfigure}[b][\vamaxheight][t]{.10\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\caption{}
\end{subfigure}%
\hfill
\begin{subfigure}[b][\vamaxheight][t]{.15\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-b}
\caption{}
\end{subfigure}%
\end{verticallyaligned}
\caption{}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!htb]
\begin{verticallyaligned}
\begin{subfigure}[b][\vamaxheight][c]{.10\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\caption{}
\end{subfigure}%
\hfill
\begin{subfigure}[b][\vamaxheight][c]{.15\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-b}
\caption{}
\end{subfigure}%
\end{verticallyaligned}
\caption{}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
floatrow? – cfr Feb 26 '15 at 22:14tabular, but to no avail so far--it also aligns at the baseline. The tricky part is aligning with regards to other objects – cmhughes Feb 27 '15 at 18:19