How to align first line of captions?

[augustebaum]

Hi,

I'm really excited about subpar, I jumped on it as soon as I saw the first version was released!

I'm trying it out on a project of mine and I see the figure captions are aligned nicely, but the result looks a bit off to my taste:

In this case it would make more sense to me if the captions' first lines were aligned.

Do you have any suggestions on how I could achieve this, or would it have to be integrated into subpar?

[tingerrr]

In your specific case (where the images appear to be of similar size), you could try setting supbar.grid(align: top, ...).

This is one of the issues I'm not yet sure how to solve easily.

[iandol]

Both figures and captions may be different sizes:

@tingerr — why can't you use grid cells for each image and caption, then you can align images to bottom and captions to top?

[tingerrr]

@tingerr — why can't you use grid cells for each image and caption, then you can align images to bottom and captions to top?

This is what I will eventually do, the problem is that I need to write up all the code to peer into potentially any kind of content a user passes and resolve certain styles in the correct context, especially when using references.

Currently, users don't have to do anything to use the @reference syntax, and I'd like to keep it that way, but I haven't come up with a solution that preserves this.

[Pherkel]

Just wanted to get an update on this issue. Are there any plans to implement this feature in the near future? If not, do you have any suggestions for these cases?

[tingerrr]

Unfortunately, no, I don't plan on working on this in the near future, the package is currently in low maintenance mode. This means I fix high-priority bugs, but otherwise don't work on it.

As for suggestions, you could preprocess the images to be the same aspect ratio (using transparent space around them), but I know that's not a pretty solution.

[Pherkel]

All right. I've now found a workaround that requires some manual tweaking but works for me right now:

#subpar.grid(
  caption: [Main Caption],
  columns: (1fr, 1fr),
  align: horizon,
  figure(
    caption: [Subcaption 1],
    image("../assets/tall-img.png"),
  ),
  figure(
    caption: [Subcaption 2],
    pad(
      image("../assets/short-img.jpg"),
      bottom: 8em, // manually adjust
    ),
  ),
)

[dayala1]

The issue is that images should be decoupled from the caption. A very easy way to do so is to include the images in the grid without them being a figure, then include imageless figures in the next row so that the captions are aligned.

This seems to be a pretty natural way to decouple them.