Centering tabular array of images

Question

I have a tabular array of four images and I am not able to center it. My images are pushed towards the right edge of the sheet. The centering looks fine for single images , so I am guessing this issue is of centering starting from the margin. How do I make an visually pleasing centering of my images.

\begin{center}

\begin{table}[h]
\begin{tabular}{cc}
\textbf{blah}  & \textbf{text} $m=\pi,n=e$  \\
\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss0.png} &
\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss1.png} \\ 
\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss2.png} & 
\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss3.png} \\
\textbf{text} & text

\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{center}

I would not mind if my image breaks a little off into the left margin.

Answer 1

It's by no means necessary to insert tabular environments in table environments. It appears that you are trying to typeset a "here table", so that it can't float. Then

\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{@{}cc@{}}
\textbf{blah}  & \textbf{text} $m=\pi,n=e$  \\
\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss0} &
\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss1} \\ 
\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss2} & 
\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss3} \\
\textbf{text} & text
\end{tabular}
\end{center}

is probably what you need. In case you are satisfied with making the images sticking into the margins, add \makebox[0pt]{ in front of \begin{tabular} and the closing } immediately following \end{tabular}.

However, this might spoil your pagination, if this object falls near a page break. You may consider to use a floating table environment and the subfig or subcaption packages.

Answer 2

Here's an option using the subcaption package which egreg mentioned. From the documentation:

After loading the subcaption package the new environments subfigure and subtable are available, which have the same (optional & mandatory) arguments as the minipage environment. Inside these environments you use the ordinary \caption command for typesetting captions.

example (not from documentation)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
    \begin{subfigure}{0.49\textwidth}
        \centering
        \rule{30pt}{20pt}
        %\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss0.png}
        \caption{}
    \end{subfigure}
    \begin{subfigure}{0.49\textwidth}
        \centering
        \rule{30pt}{20pt}
        %\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss1.png}
        \caption{}
    \end{subfigure} \\
    \begin{subfigure}{0.49\textwidth}
        \centering
        \rule{30pt}{20pt}
        %\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss2.png}
        \caption{}
    \end{subfigure}
    \begin{subfigure}{0.49\textwidth}
        \centering
        \rule{30pt}{20pt}
        %\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss3.png}
        \caption{}
    \end{subfigure}
    \caption{}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Answer 3

Try the following:

• remove the \begin{center} and \end{center} instructions
• insert the instruction \centering right before \begin{tabular}
• insert a \\ after the final "text" string and remove the blank line before \end{tabular}

I notice that the text header for the second column is quite a bit wider than the one for the first column; depending on the width of the graphics files, this may also affect the visual appearance of the efforts to place the images on a sheet of paper.

Answer 4

use

\begin{table}[!htb]\centering
\begin{tabular}{@{}c c@{}}
\textbf{blah}  & \textbf{text} $m=\pi,n=e$  \\
\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss0} &
\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss1} \\ 
\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss2} & 
\includegraphics[height=45mm]{liss3} \\
\textbf{text} & text
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

and if the images wider than 0.5\textwidth then you should use

\includegraphics[height=45mm,width=0.49\textwidth,keepaspectratio]{...} 

Answer 5

As @egreg suggested (and this was also the solution that first came to my mind :) ), here is an example using subfig:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfig}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
    \centering
%%----start of first subfigure----
    \subfloat[Caption of subfigure 1]{%
        \label{fig:volt1cnv}%% label for first subfigure
        \includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{liss0.PNG}}
    \hspace{0.02\linewidth}
%%----start of second subfigure----
    \subfloat[Caption of subfigure 2]{%
        \label{fig:crt1cnv}%% label for second subfigure
        \includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{liss1.PNG}}\\
%%----start of third subfigure----
    \subfloat[Caption of subfigure 3]{%
        \label{fig:volt1cnv}%% label for first subfigure
        \includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{liss2.PNG}}
    \hspace{0.02\linewidth}
%%----start of fourth subfigure----
    \subfloat[Caption of subfigure 4]{%
        \label{fig:crt1cnv}%% label for second subfigure
        \includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{liss3.PNG}}
    \caption{Caption of entire figure}
    \label{fig:vi1cnv}%% label for entire figure
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Note that the captions for the subfigures are optional parameters. So if you choose not to have any subfigure captions simply omit that one, like here:

\subfloat{%
    \label{fig:crt1cnv}%% label for second subfigure
    \includegraphics[width=0.4\linewidth]{liss3.PNG}}