On Friday, May 6, 2011 at 11:30:42 AM UTC+1, Enrico Gregorio wrote:
> <"tge...@gmail.com"> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am busy writing up my PhD thesis. I am doing a PhD in cell biology
> > so I have lots of microscope images. These images, if included at
> > LaTeX's normal textwidth will be too small to be informative so I need
> > to include them as large as possible: about 19 cm in width. I do not
> > want to broaden the text to 19 cm. I like the easy to read narrow
> > textwidth. How can I instruct LaTeX to broaden the textwidth for these
> > microscope images?
> >
> > As the images are large they really mess up LaTeX's automatic place
> > setting and text flow so I've positioned them all the back of each
> > chapter. So I guess a minipage environment may work but I don't want
> > to sit and fiddle for each image to get it just right. If I wanted to
> > fiddle I would still be using Word and pulling out my hair in
> > frustration. There is a complication: there are many images
> > interspersed in the text which need not be 19 cm wide where textwidth
> > would do nicely (and a broader image would just look stupid) so the
> > fix needs options.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > I'm thinking the construction of image Plates for each page:
> >
> > \vfill
> >
> > \hspace{-.2\textwidth}\begin{minipage}[c]{1.4\textwidth}
> > \begin{figure}[h!}
> > \centering
> > \includegraphics[scale=1]{foo}%could use [x\textheight] for
> > tall images...
> > \caption{A really wide picture.}\label{fig.foo}
> > \end{figure}
> > \end{minipage}
> >
> > \vfill
> >
> > \newpage
> >
> > On problem here I can see is that the caption is still going to be the
> > normal \textwidth and the image has no reason to scale to
> > 1.4\textwidth... So how do I fix this? Can a \addtolength{\textwidtht}
> > {2x} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-x} be employed in the minipage only?
> >
> > Comments? Suggestions?
> ====
> \begin{figure}[htbp]
> \centering
> \makebox[\textwidth]{%
> \includegraphics[width=19cm]{foo}%
> }
> \caption{A really wide picture}\label{fig.foo}
> \end{figure}
> ====
> I wouldn't widen the caption.
> Don't use "[h!]", as this will make very difficult for LaTeX to place
> the figure, especially if it's very large. It's also wrong to put a
> figure environment inside a minipage; maybe the other way around:
> \begin{figure}[htbp]
> \centering
> \makebox[\textwidth]{%
> \begin{minipage}{19cm}
> \centering
> \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{foo}
> \caption{A really wide picture}\label{fig.foo}
> \end{minipage}%
> }
> \end{figure}
> In this way the caption will be widened.
> The \makebox[\textwidth]{...} keeps LaTeX happy, as it won't
> "see" any overfull line.
> Ciao
> Enrico