[pdftex] figures side-by-side?

[Herbert Voss]

E. Kristina Brock wrote:
> Hi I am trying to include figures side-by-side.  I thought I could use
> minipage to do this, but it won't compile, saying I have a missing number
> or something, which doesn't really make sense to me.
> 
> This is what I tried:
> \begin{figure}[htb!]
> \begin{minipage}[t][3.5cm]

\begin{minipage}[t]{3.5cm}

put the width in braces, not brackets

Herbert


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