Minipages in Springer template

Question

I'm using the Springer svjour3 template and trying to put two figures in the same level with:

\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}    % outer minipage
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{minipage}{.45\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth,trim={3.5cm 7cm 3cm 6.6cm},clip]{histk1000.eps}
\caption{My caption}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{minipage}{.45\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth,trim={3.5cm 7cm 3cm 6.6cm},clip]{histk1000.eps}
\caption{My caption}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

\end{minipage}  % ending outer minipage

and it doesn't show figures. They appear if I remove the outer minipage. Any idea?

This is a (min) complete script:

%
\RequirePackage{fix-cm}
%
%\documentclass{svjour3}                     % onecolumn (standard format)
%\documentclass[smallcondensed]{svjour3}     % onecolumn (ditto)
\documentclass[smallextended]{svjour3}       % onecolumn (second format)
%\documentclass[twocolumn]{svjour3}          % twocolumn
%
\smartqed  % flush right qed marks, e.g. at end of proof
%
\usepackage{graphicx}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%\usepackage{pgf}
\usepackage{xxcolor}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, linkcolor=blue, urlcolor=blue, citecolor   = green]{hyperref}%pdftex,
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
%\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsbsy, amsthm}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{fancyhdr, blindtext}
\usepackage{tabularx, caption}
%\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{t1enc}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage[ msc-links]{amsrefs}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{amsrefs}
\usepackage{python}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows}
%
\begin{document}

\title{Efficient generator 
}

\author{Titus Caius
}


\date{Received: date / Accepted: date}
% The correct dates will be entered by the editor


\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
This work introduces ...
\end{abstract}

...


\begin{multicols}{2}

 \begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
\centering
  \includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth,trim={3.5cm 7cm 3cm 6.6cm},clip]{histk1000.eps}
\caption{My caption}
\end{minipage}

\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
\centering
  \includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth,trim={3.5cm 7cm 3cm 6.6cm},clip]{histk1000.eps}
\caption{My caption}
\end{minipage}

\end{multicols}


\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}    % outer minipage

\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
\centering
  \includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth,trim={3.5cm 7cm 3cm 6.6cm},clip]{histk1000.eps}
\caption{My caption}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
\centering
  \includegraphics[width=.9\linewidth,trim={3.5cm 7cm 3cm 6.6cm},clip]{histk1000.eps}
\caption{My caption}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

\end{minipage}  % ending outer minipage

  \begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
      \centering
      \begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth}
    \begin{figure*}
              \includegraphics[width=\linewidth,trim={3.5cm 7cm 3cm 6.6cm},clip]{example.eps}
              \caption{Histogram of 1000000 numbers for $k=1000$; $n=100$}
                            \label{hist1}       % Give a unique label
\end{figure*}
      \end{minipage}
      \hspace{0.05\linewidth}
      \begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth}
          \begin{figure*}[H]
              \includegraphics[width=\linewidth,trim={3.5cm 7cm 3cm 6.6cm},clip]{histk997.eps}
              \caption{Histogram of 1000000 numbers for $k=997$; $n=100$}
                            \label{hist2}
          \end{figure*}
      \end{minipage}
  \end{minipage}



      \begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
      \centering
      \begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth}
          \begin{figure*}[H]
              \includegraphics[width=\linewidth,trim={3.5cm 7cm 3cm 6.6cm},clip]{plot100.pdf}
              \caption{Plot of pairs $(x_j,x_{j+1})$ for $k=100$; 1000 generated numbers}
                            \label{fig:1}
          \end{figure*}
      \end{minipage}
      \hspace{0.05\linewidth}
      \begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth}
          \begin{figure*}[H]
              \includegraphics[width=\linewidth,trim={3.5cm 7cm 3cm 6.6cm},clip]{plot109.pdf}
              \caption{Plot of pairs $(x_j,x_{j+1})$ for $k=109$; 1000 generated numbers}
                            \label{fig:2}
          \end{figure*}
      \end{minipage}
  \end{minipage}


\end{document}

I just want two show side by side like in the multicols environment. It works for multicols (no caption), but not with minipage.

Welcome to TeX.SE. You're trying to take the floating environment as a prisoner inside a minipage. I suspect some messages like floats lost etc. there — , Jun 07 '17 at 09:21
Don't understand what you want. Maybe just two minipages side by side in one figure instead of two figures inside one minipage. Maybe even using package subcaption would be a suggestion. If not, you should add a minimal but working example (MWE) starting with \documentclass and ending with \end{document} and describe what you exactly except. — Schweinebacke, Jun 07 '17 at 10:00
Off-Topic: You should not use \usepackage{t1enc} but \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}. You should load hyperref as late as possible. You should not load packages more than once with different options. For a MWE you should reduce your preamble. And for a real MWE you should replace the image files, e.g., by example-image from package mwe, because we do not have your images and so the example is not a working one. See the link in my first comment. — Schweinebacke, Jun 07 '17 at 14:16
Your code is not minimal. Also you load many packages twice and do load hyperref last. — Andrew Swann, Jun 07 '17 at 16:33
It looks like you've got two separate accounts, which means you cannot edit your original post or leave comments. The Stack Exchange staff can merge them together for you. — Dai Bowen, Jun 08 '17 at 00:24

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 07 '17 at 16:03

I solved like this:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tabularx, caption}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{t1enc}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage[ msc-links]{amsrefs}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{amsrefs}
\usepackage{python}

\begin{document}

 \begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
  \centering
  \begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth}
      \begin{figure}[H]
          \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image}
          \caption{This is the first figure}
      \end{figure}
  \end{minipage}
  \hspace{0.05\linewidth}
  \begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth}
      \begin{figure}[H]
          \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image}
          \caption{This is the second figure}
      \end{figure}
  \end{minipage}
  \end{minipage}

\end{document}

It looks like you have two accounts. You should ask the moderators to merge them. The fundamental approach above is wrong: minipages don't float and should not contain floats. — Andrew Swann, Jun 07 '17 at 16:14

Minipages in Springer template

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