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I am trying to create an environment for plotting two figures side-by-side:

 beginfigure[t] 
 beginminipage[b]0.49textwidth
 flushleft
 psfragfig[frame,mode=nonstop]Plot_random_Breite_05_1
 captionFigur Nr. 8a 
 labelfig:8a
 endminipage
hspace*14pt% separation between the subfigures
 beginminipage[b]0.49textwidth
 flushleft
 psfragfig[frame,mode=nonstop]Plot_random_Breite_05_2
 captionFigur Nr. 8b 
 labelfig:8b
 endminipage
 endfigure

The output looks like this:

Unfortunately I get an "Overfull hbox" warning.

I tried several things to remove this warning:

• remove hspace
  


• smaller width (0.4textwidth)


• 
  linewidth instead of textwidth
  


• 
  subfigure instead of minipage
  

Nothing helped. The plot is not scaled, the textwidth is about 9cm and the size of the plot is about 3cm.

Has someone an idea? Can't figure out where the bug is -.-

If I use hfill as recommended below, my code and the output look like this:

beginfigure[t] 
 beginminipage[b]0.49textwidth
 raggedright
 psfragfig[frame,mode=nonstop]Plot_random_Breite_05_1
 captionFigur Nr. 8a 
 labelfig:8a
 endminipagehfill
 beginminipage[b]0.49textwidth
 raggedleft
 psfragfig[frame,mode=nonstop]Plot_random_Breite_05_2
 captionFigur Nr. 8b 
 labelfig:8b
 endminipage
endfigure

As you can see I would prefer, if both picture align with the margins.

Is there a way to align the second caption with the frame of the plot?

The construction on the line that contains your two sub-figures consist of elements that have the following widths:

1. A minipage of width 0.49textwidth;




2. An inter-word space between the first minipage and the hspace*;




3. A hard space of 14pt;




4. A minipage of width 0.49textwidth.

The above combination is wider than textwidth, obviously, as is indicated by the first construction below (I'm using rule instead of minipage, but the effect is the same):

documentclassarticle

begindocument

beginfigure
 X dotfill X% For reference

 rule0.49textwidth1pt
 hspace*14pt% Separation between sub-figures
 rule0.49textwidth1pt

 ruledimexpr0.5textwidth-7pt1pt%
 hspace*14pt% Separation between sub-figures
 ruledimexpr0.5textwidth-7pt1pt

 rule0.49textwidth1pt
 hfill% Flexible fill between sub-figures
 rule0.49textwidth1pt

 X dotfill X% For reference
endfigure

enddocument

If you're stuck on having the fixed 14pt gap between the two sub-figures, then you need to make sure that each component is exactly split between the remainder. That is, each image (or minipage) takes up 0.5textwidth-7pt. That's what the second construction achieves.

Note the use of % sign after the first sub-figure in order to avoid the inter-word space that is naturally inserted after a macro with an argument.

Alternatively, if you're interested in fixing the width of the sub-figures (rather than the 14pt gap mentioned above), then you can insert a flexible fill using hfill.

You haven't posted enough information to completely diagnose the problem but

beginminipage[b]0.49textwidth
endminipage
hspace*14pt% separation between the subfigures
beginminipage0.49textwidth
endminipage

is a line .98textwidth + 1 word space + 14pt wide so that may or may not be wider than textwidth.

Perhaps you want

beginminipage[b]0.49textwidth
endminipagehfill 
beginminipage0.49textwidth
endminipage

which will have exactly .02textwidth space between the minipages, with a total line width of exactly textwidth.