More Side-by-Side Figures

Here's yet another way to get an array of Figures. This example uses epsf, but you can modify it to include whatever figure format you choose. Thanks to Dave for the idea and the debugging.

Here is the tex source. Some notes about the code follow. 

\documentstyle[epsf]{article}
\begin{document}

This is the last line of text before Figure 1, an array of labelled 
sub-figures, begins; this line shows the right and left margins.

\begin{figure}[hbtp]
  \vspace{9pt}

  \centerline{\hbox{ \hspace{0.0in} 
    \epsfxsize=2.0in
    \epsffile{one.eps}
    \hspace{0.25in}
    \epsfxsize=2.0in
    \epsffile{two.eps}
    }
  }

  \vspace{9pt}
  \hbox{\hspace{1.35in} (a) \hspace{2.10in} (b)} 
  \vspace{9pt}

  \centerline{\hbox{ \hspace{0.50in}
    \epsfxsize=2.0in
    \epsffile{three.eps}
    \hspace{0.25in}
    \epsfxsize=2.0in
    \epsffile{four.eps}
    }
  }

  \vspace{9pt}
  \hbox{\hspace{1.35in} (c) \hspace{2.10in} (d)} 
  \vspace{9pt}

  \caption{ This Figure contains four panels labelled (a), (b), (c), and
of course, (d).}
  \label{sub-fig-test}

\end{figure}

Here is the line of text after Figure \ref{sub-fig-test}.  It is indented
because of the leading blank line.

\end{document}

Notes

  1. The first \hspace{} following \centerline{\hbox{... tweaks the horizontal position of the Figures. Sub-figures (a) and (b) are centered because of the \hspace{0.0in} while sub-figures (c) and (d) are offset by half an inch by including \hspace{0.50in}.
  2. The vertical positioning of the sub-figures in dictated by the \vspace{9pt} calls.
  3. The labels (a), (b) and (c), (d) are positioned by calling 
    \hbox{\hspace{1.35in} (a) \hspace{2.10in} (b)}
    after placing the sub-figures. The numbers, 1.35in and 2.10in are just trial and error guesses at the centers of the sub-figures.

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Last update: 14 August 1995