Thanks for all suggestions. I will probably stick with the solution of generating the panels with imagemagick and then including them as figures [[panel.png]].

Regards,
Martin

> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:19:57 -0500
> Subject: Re: [O] LaTeX export: images subplots
> From: jw.hendy@gmail.com
> To: mart_00@hotmail.com
> CC: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> 
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Martin Leduc <mart_00@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >    this solution using tables was indeed inspired from your post, I am so
> > sorry, I should have refered to it...
> >
> 
> Ha! No problem at all -- small mailing list world :)
> 
> > I suppose that the feature has not been implemented yet. I am now thinking
> > of generating a panel with imagemagick before including it in the org
> > buffer, for example with
> >
> > #+begin_src sh
> > convert +append image1.png image2.png panel.png
> > #+end_src
> >
> > and hence
> >
> > #+CAPTION:
> > [[panel.png]]
> 
> What in the wide world of sports!? That's amazing and I can't believe
> I've never run into that. Sooo flipping handy. I've been looking for
> an easy way to do this with dissimilar ggplot2 plots where facetting
> is hard or doesn't make sense as well:
> - Like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18046051/setting-individual-axis-limits-with-facet-wrap-and-scales-free-in-ggplot2
> 
> That's pretty awesome and I just tried it; works beautifully.
> 
> Then again, I think handling images in Org tables would be just
> fantastic. Not need for an external program or the compile time.
> Perhaps a bit tricky as one would have to infer from some #+attr_latex
> property that one wanted to apply some size parameter to every
> [option] box of the converted \includegraphics line...
> 
> In any case, thanks for this and I'll keep that in mind. Hopefully
> others chime in.
> 
> 
> John
> 
> >
> > to have the two images side by side both in the buffer (with C-cxv) and the
> > latex pdf (within a figure environment).
> >
> > Is there a cleaner org solution that I would have missed ?
> > Thanks again,
> > Martin
> >
> >> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:47:08 -0500
> >> Subject: Re: [O] LaTeX export: images subplots
> >> From: jw.hendy@gmail.com
> >> To: mart_00@hotmail.com
> >> CC: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Martin Leduc <mart_00@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> > I am using org-mode to write a report with several figures. I would like
> >> > to group some images into a same figure, let say a 2x2 panel. I know
> >> > that I
> >> > can directly embed latex code in my org file, for example by using the
> >> > subfloats (from the latex subfig package).
> >> >
> >> > However, I would prefer to use an org-based solution of inserting the
> >> > image
> >> > links in order to keep the convenient way of previewing images right
> >> > into
> >> > the buffer with C-c C-x C-v.
> >> >
> >> > The only solution I found is by using tables such as:
> >> >
> >> > #+CAPTION: Insert caption here.
> >> > #+ATTR_LATEX: :align p{0.5\textwidth}p{0.5\textwidth}
> >> > | [[pathtoimage]] | [[pathtoimage]] |
> >> > | [[pathtoimage]] | [[pathtoimage]] |
> >> >
> >> > where the size of the images is controled by p{} and C-cxv is working.
> >> > However, in the exported TeX file, it is a table, not a figure. Is there
> >> > a
> >> > cleaner way to make image panels that would preserve the figure
> >> > environment
> >> > in the exported TeX file ?
> >>
> >> Just wanted to cite my similar (same?) question from a bit back:
> >> - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-03/msg01800.html
> >>
> >> The only suggest I got was to use the subfig package, which may
> >> actually be something like what you're looking for.
> >>
> >> I guess p{width} /could/ work for what I was going for, but I will
> >> often stagger images and my own "captions" via the org table:
> >>
> >> #+ATTR_LATEX: :align p{0.5\textwidth}p{0.5\textwidth}
> >> | [[pathtoimage]] | [[pathtoimage]] |
> >> | /blah blah/ | /blah blah/ |
> >> | | |
> >> | [[pathtoimage]] | [[pathtoimage]] |
> >> | /blah blah/ | /blah blah/ |
> >> | | |
> >>
> >> I don't like using p{} because everything is left aligned and I like
> >> to center the images and the "caption" text below each one.
> >> Unfortunately, there's no centered equivalent to p{}. Thus, I end up
> >> using \includegraphics[widt]{} manually.
> >>
> >> Anyway, sorry if that's off-topic. Just wanted to voice that I have a
> >> use for this general sort of thing as well. Heck, I think even
> >> applying the beamer columns principle to LaTeX article classes would
> >> work and be quite neat.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> John
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Thanks a lot,
> >> > Martin
> >> >
> >> >