Dear Matthew and Christian:

I think the subfigure package is indeed what I needed. Thank you both very much 
for your time and valuable advice!

Best wishes,
Yiqing
 
In message <web-12773085@idmailbe2b.unizh.ch> "Christian Deindl" 
<deindl@soziologie.uzh.ch> writes:
> I am not an expert but subfigure might be helpful:
> 
> \usepackage{subfigure}
> 
> \begin{figure}[htp]
> \caption{YOUR CAPTION}
> \subfigure [CAPTION FOR PICTURE 
> 1]{\includegraphics[height=6cm,width=6cm]{__.eps}}
> \subfigure [CAPTION FOR PICTURE 
> 2]{\includegraphics[height=6cm,width=6cm]{__.eps}}
> \label{fig:___}
> \end{figure}
> 
> christian
> 
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:05:06 -0400
>   Matthew Leingang <leingang@math.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > On Mar 27, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Yiqing Jin wrote:
> > 
> >> Hello, experts of TeX!
> >>
> >> I am sorry for the trouble, but I was hoping to obtain help on an  
> >> troublesome
> >> issue: is it possible to create a single caption for several  
> >> imported graphics?
> >> Currently I have to resort to merging multiple graphs into a single  
> >> file for my
> >> reports, which is inconvenient and not elegant---I'd be very  
> >> grateful if
> >> everything can be done in LaTeX alone. Thank you very much in advance!
> > 
> > Dear Yiqing,
> > 
> > Maybe one of the real experts will chime in after me but graphics and  
> > figures don't need to be in one-one correspondence.
> > 
> > You can do:
> > 
> > \begin{figure}
> > \begin{minipage}{0.5\textwidth}
> > \includegraphics[graphic1]
> > \end{minipage}
> > \begin{minipage}{0.5\textwidth}
> > \includegraphics[graphic2]
> > \end{minipage}
> > \caption{Two great graphics in one figure}
> > \end{figure}
> > 
> > If you want more than this, like labels for the individual graphics,  
> > look into the subfigure package.
> > 
> > Hope that helps.
> > 
> > --Matthew Leingang
> > 
> > --
> > Matthew Leingang
> > Preceptor in Mathematics
> > Harvard University
> > 
> > http://www.math.harvard.edu/~leingang/vCard.vcf
> > 
> > 
> > 
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