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I have several TikZ graphics on one page. To add a description on the right side of the graphics I use the paracol package (is there a better way to do this?).

As you can see on the picture below the last graphic doesn't fit on page 1. This even results in bad positioning of footnotes, e.g. footnote 1 should appear on page 1.

How can deal with this problem without adding \newpage manually?

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MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{paracol}
\footnotelayout{m}

\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{paracol}{2} % left column
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.55]
% help lines
\draw[step=1,help lines,black!20] (-5,-5) grid (5,5);
% axis
\draw[thick,->,black!75] (-5,0) -- (5,0);
\draw[very thick,->] (0,-5) -- (0,5) node[pos=0.97,left] {$y$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\switchcolumn % right column
I'm a description.
\end{paracol}

\begin{paracol}{2} % left column
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.55]
% help lines
\draw[step=1,help lines,black!20] (-5,-5) grid (5,5);
% axis
\draw[thick,->,black!75] (-5,0) -- (5,0);
\draw[very thick,->] (0,-5) -- (0,5) node[pos=0.97,left] {$y$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\switchcolumn % right column
I'm a description.\footnote{I'm a footnote.}
\end{paracol}

\begin{paracol}{2} % left column
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.55]
% help lines
\draw[step=1,help lines,black!20] (-5,-5) grid (5,5);
% axis
\draw[thick,->,black!75] (-5,0) -- (5,0);
\draw[very thick,->] (0,-5) -- (0,5) node[pos=0.97,left] {$y$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\switchcolumn % right column
I'm a description.
\end{paracol}

\begin{paracol}{2} % left column
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.55]
% help lines
\draw[step=1,help lines,black!20] (-5,-5) grid (5,5);
% axis
\draw[thick,->,black!75] (-5,0) -- (5,0);
\draw[very thick,->] (0,-5) -- (0,5) node[pos=0.97,left] {$y$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\switchcolumn % right column
I'm a description.\footnote{I'm a footnote.}
\end{paracol}
\end{document}

If you change the scale of the tikz pictures to 0.59 you can see the following

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Andreas Schneider
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1 Answers1

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I think you could do something like this with a tabular (although you will have to break manually) or minipages. Following I propose a solution with tcolorbox. Every pair figure+comment are enclosed inside a tcolorbox. Each figure is the upperpart and each comment its lowerpart.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
%\footnotelayout{m}

\usepackage{tikz}

\newtcolorbox{mybox}{empty, sidebyside, notitle, lower separated=false}

\begin{document}

\begin{mybox}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.55]
% help lines
\draw[step=1,help lines,black!20] (-5,-5) grid (5,5);
% axis
\draw[thick,->,black!75] (-5,0) -- (5,0);
\draw[very thick,->] (0,-5) -- (0,5) node[pos=0.97,left] {$y$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\tcblower % right column
I'm a description.
\end{mybox}

\begin{mybox}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.55]
% help lines
\draw[step=1,help lines,black!20] (-5,-5) grid (5,5);
% axis
\draw[thick,->,black!75] (-5,0) -- (5,0);
\draw[very thick,->] (0,-5) -- (0,5) node[pos=0.97,left] {$y$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\tcblower % right column
I'm a description.\footnote{I'm a footnote.}
\end{mybox}

\begin{mybox}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.55]
% help lines
\draw[step=1,help lines,black!20] (-5,-5) grid (5,5);
% axis
\draw[thick,->,black!75] (-5,0) -- (5,0);
\draw[very thick,->] (0,-5) -- (0,5) node[pos=0.97,left] {$y$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\tcblower % right column
I'm a description.
\end{mybox}

\begin{mybox}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.55]
% help lines
\draw[step=1,help lines,black!20] (-5,-5) grid (5,5);
% axis
\draw[thick,->,black!75] (-5,0) -- (5,0);
\draw[very thick,->] (0,-5) -- (0,5) node[pos=0.97,left] {$y$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\tcblower % right column
I'm a description.\footnote{I'm a footnote.}
\end{mybox}
\end{document}

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Ignasi
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  • The footnotes should appear on the end of the page, e.g. footnote 1 at the end of page 1 and footnote 2 at the end of page 2. – Andreas Schneider Apr 26 '16 at 08:09
  • @Sr.Schneider Footnote problem can be solved with http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/274/can-i-get-a-normal-footnote-in-a-minipage-environment-in-latex-how. You could also find alternative solutions to figure+paragraph pairs in http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/154401/vertical-align-a-tabular-and-tikz-figure-in-a-minipage – Ignasi Apr 26 '16 at 16:30