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I have two subfigures side by side in one figure, and one subfigure is less than half the height of the other. I would like to align the subfigures at their titles and have the caption fill the empty space under the smaller subfigure, then overflow beneath both figures. Is this possible? Below is the code and picture of how it is now.

Thank you in advance!

begin{figure}[H]

  centering

  subfloat{{includegraphics[width=5cm]{Fig10a.png} }}%

  qquad

  subfloat{{includegraphics[width=5cm]{Fig10b.png} }}%

  caption{Caption text goes here.}

  label{fig:fig10} 

end{figure}

This solution modifies @makecaption locally to format the caption using hangindent and hangafter. The saveboxes are used to compute the distance for the text to be wrapped.

The subfloats are aligned at the top using raisebox. Technically, the caption overlaps the left picture, hence the [0pt].

The extra topskip is due to a feature (bug) in subfig which behaves differently in vmode and hmode.

documentclass{article}

usepackage{graphicx}

usepackage{subfig}

usepackage{blindtext}

usepackage{caption}% not used, test for compatibility

usepackage{hyperref}



makeatletter

newcommand{hangcaption}[2]{% #1 = hangindent, #2 = hangafterbaselineskip (negative distance)

  longdef@makecaption##1##2{% 

    vskipabovecaptionskip

    hangindent=#1relax

    hangafter=numexpr #2relax/baselineskiprelax

    ##1: ##2par

    vskipbelowcaptionskip}%

  ignorespaces}

makeatother



begin{document}

listoffigures



begin{figure}[hp]

  sbox0{subfloat{includegraphics[width=5cm,height=6cm]{example-image}}}%

  sbox1{subfloat{includegraphics[width=5cm,height=2cm]{example-image}}}%

  centering

  raisebox{-height}[0pt][0pt]{usebox0}hfilhfil

  raisebox{dimexpr topskip-height}{usebox1}% topskip ?????

  hangcaption{0.5textwidth}{dimexpr ht1-ht0}%

  caption[short caption]{blindtext}

end{figure}



end{document}