Side caption on subfigure

Question

I have problem: I would like to put a side caption on a subfigure. Here is my actual code (that doesn't perform the side caption):

\begin{figure}[H]
\begin{center}
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \label{...}
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{...}
    }
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \label{...}
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{...}
    }\\
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \label{...}
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{...}
    }
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \label{...}
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{...}
    }\\
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \label{...}
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{...}
    }
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \label{...}
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{...}
    }\\
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \label{...}
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{...}
    }
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \label{...}
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{...}
    }\\
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \label{...}
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{...}
    }
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \label{...}
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{...}
    }\\
\end{center}
\caption{"I would like that this text is put on the side of the image"}
\label{...}
\end{figure}

Where I put "..." is text that I delete. I tried with the sidecap package and edit the environment with SCfigure instead of figure, but this gives me a lot of errors.

See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20354, if this can help you — Zarko, Jan 24 '20 at 12:29
subfigures only have labels. The question related you posted doesn't concern what I really want to do.. in the code where there is caption tag you can find what I'm trying to do — Simo, Jan 24 '20 at 13:31
The subfigure package is no longer supported. You can use \subfloat from the subcaption package instead. — John Kormylo, Jan 24 '20 at 14:52
You have 10 images; what image would you put the caption next to? — egreg, Jan 24 '20 at 21:07

John Kormylo · Answer 1 · 2020-01-24T15:51:24.847

This differs from sidecap in that it computes the width available for the caption and it aligns the tops using \raisebox.

The caption \label should go inside the minipage with the caption.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{varwidth}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[htp]
\sbox0{\begin{varwidth}{\textwidth}% get width of combined subfigures
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}
    }
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}
    }\\
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}
    }
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}
    }\\
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}
    }
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}
    }\\
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}
    }
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}
    }\\
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}
    }
    \subfigure[\footnotesize{...}]{
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}
    }\\
\end{varwidth}}%
\raisebox{-\height}{\usebox0}% left
\hspace{\columnsep}% gap
\raisebox{-\height}{\begin{minipage}{\dimexpr \textwidth-\wd0-\columnsep}
\abovecaptionskip=0pt
\caption{"I would like that this text is put on the side of the image"}
\end{minipage}}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

egreg · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-24T21:36:30.100

Please, be aware that subfigure is obsolete. Either use subfig (and \subfloat instead of \subfigure) or the more recent and maintained subcaption package.

I guess that you want the caption to be next to the set of images because the caption text is long. Otherwise bottom placement would be much better.

Just use a tabular to align the images and a minipage to set the caption.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{lipsum} % for mock caption text

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\begin{tabular}{@{}cc@{}}
    \subfloat[subfigure]{%
        \label{a}%
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}%
    }&
    \subfloat[subfigure]{%
        \label{b}%
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}%
    }\\
    \subfloat[subfigure]{%
        \label{c}%
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}%
    }&
    \subfloat[subfigure]{%
        \label{d}%
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}%
    }\\
    \subfloat[subfigure]{%
        \label{e}%
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}%
    }&
    \subfloat[subfigure]{%
        \label{f}%
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}%
    }\\
    \subfloat[subfigure]{%
        \label{g}%
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}%
    }&
    \subfloat[subfigure]{%
        \label{h}%
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}%
    }\\
    \subfloat[subfigure]{%
        \label{i}%
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}%
    }&
    \subfloat[subfigure]{%
        \label{j}%
        \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image}%
    }\\
\end{tabular}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}
\caption{\lipsum[2]}
\label{x}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Using [H] as the placement specifier is generally wrong; even more in this case where the float is quite large.

With a couple of tricks you can get top alignment.

change \begin{tabular}{@{}cc@{}} into

\begin{tabular}[t]{@{}cc@{}} \\[-\dp\strutbox]

change \begin{minipage}[t]{0.4\textwidth} into
```
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.4\textwidth}
```

The rest remains unchanged.

Thank you very much. That's exactly what I wanted to do!!! – Simo Jan 25 '20 at 11:19 — Simo, Jan 25 '20 at 11:19

Side caption on subfigure

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