figureSeries is a LaTeX package for creating figure*-like floating objects that can break over several pages.
Figure and figure* environments in LaTeX cannot break across pages. They may, however, include sub-figures. If you have more sub-figures than what fits on one page, you have to manually divide them into two separate figure environments. Doing this is not only tedious, it is virtually impossible to be automated. Such automation may be wanted if you either don't want to do it by hand or if your sub-figures (along with their captions) are automatically generated by some tool.
The package figureSeries provides
- a facility to include an arbitrary number of (potentially differently-sized) sub-figures into a figure*-like construct,
- the ability to make this figure*-like construct look as if it was a floating object, which
- works well in both single-column and double-column documents.
It may therefore be considered as a potential solution to the following requests and/or issues:
- http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/185534
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1078370
- http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11059
- http://blog.it-weise.de/p/318
Other related issues are:
This archive contains the following files:
- figureSeries.sty is the main package file. This is the only file you need if you want to use the package and know how to use it.
- figureSeries.pdf contains the documentation, including several examples in conjunction with popular document classes and a detailed description of how the package works.
- a folder "examples" containing
- Two examples for using figureSeries in conjunction with Springer's llncs.cls: example_1_LNCS.tex and example_7_LNCS.tex are the source files and example_1_LNCS.pdf and example_7_LNCS.pdf are the generated PDFs.
- Two examples for using figureSeries together with the two-column IEEEtran.cls (example_2_IEEEtran.tex, example_3_IEEEtran.tex as well as example_2_IEEEtran.pdf and example_3_IEEEtran.pdf, their corresponding PDFs).
- Three examples for using figureSeries together with the two- column class sig-alternate.cls (example_4_sigAlternate, example_5_sigAlternate, and example_6_sigAlternate, with the .tex and .pdf file suffixes).
- The document classes needed for these examples (llncs.cls, IEEEtran.cls, and sig-alternate.cls). The copyrights for these classes are with their respective owners. They are freely available on the internet and just put here for making sure that the examples execute well.
- The package sources: Better ignore these and only look at the
documentation and examples unless you really know what you do and
want to work on the package sources. Execute batch files at your
own risk!
- figureSeries.ins and figureSeries.dtx allow you to build the package and examples from command line, i.e., to generate the above two files.
- the file make.sh which allows you to build the package and its documentation from its above sources (and the examples, see below) under Linux, given that a LaTeX system is installed.
- the file make.bat which allows you to build the package and its documentation from its above sources (and the examples, see below) under Windows, given that a LaTeX system is installed.
The copyright (c) of this work is with Thomas Weise (http://www.it-weise.de) except for the code based on Tomas Hejda's (tohecz@gmail.com) answer to question http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/74433. The copyright of this is thus not clear to me, so I won't claim it :-)
The package and its documentation are under the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3, which may be found online at http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt.
The distribution of this package may also contain the LaTeX document classes llncs.cls, IEEEtran.cls, and sig-alternate.cls. The copyrights of these files are with their respective owners and these owners alone can determine the license terms for these files. The files are just included here to make the examples stand-alone. They may not be up-to- date, so please download their latest versions from their respective locations.
If you feel that this document, its presentation, or any parts I provide for download violate your (copy)right, please contact me (http://www.it-weise.de, tweise@ustc.edu.cn, tweise@gmx.de and I will immediately resolve the issues.