Is there a way to align figure captions when put side by side in PDF?

[Minh-AnhHuynh]

Description

I'm looking forward to replicate something similar to a latex code using \figure and \minipage to put 2 figures side by side.

It seems to me that the latex code aligns the caption by default and not the figure.

Here is a minimal reproducible code:

---
title: "Align captions"
format:
  pdf:
    pdf-engine: lualatex
    lof: true
    colorlinks: false
keep-tex: true
---
Reference check to @fig-1 and @fig-2.

::: {layout-ncol=2}
![Caption for Figure 1](figures/figure1.jpg){#fig-1 fig-scap="Short caption for Figure 1"}

![Caption for Figure 2](figures/figure2.jpg){#fig-2 fig-scap="Short caption for Figure 2"}
:::

\begin{figure}[h!]
	\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/figure1.jpg}
		\caption[Short caption 1 via latex]{Caption for Figure 1}
		\label{fig:figure1}
	\end{minipage}
	\hfill
	\begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\textwidth}
		\centering
		\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/figure2.jpg}
		\caption[Short caption 2 via latex]{Caption for Figure 2}
		\label{fig:figure2}
	\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

align-caption.zip

[mcanouil]

See https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/figures.html#vertical-alignment

Note that your example is not reproducible.
Also, you should not have bare raw code, use raw code blocks, see https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/markdown-basics.html#raw-content

---

You can share a self-contained "working" (reproducible) Quarto document using the following syntax, i.e., using more backticks than you have in your document (usually four ````).
See https://quarto.org/bug-reports.html#small-is-beautiful-aim-for-a-single-document-with-10-lines.

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R	Python
````qmd --- title: "Reproducible Quarto Document" format: html engine: knitr --- This is a reproducible Quarto document. {{< lipsum 1 >}} ```{r} x <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) y <- c(1, 4, 9, 16, 25) plot(x, y) ``` {#fig-placeholder} {{< lipsum 1 >}} The end after @fig-placeholder. ````	````qmd --- title: "Reproducible Quarto Document" format: html engine: jupyter --- This is a reproducible Quarto document. {{< lipsum 1 >}} ```{python} import matplotlib.pyplot as plt x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] y = [1, 4, 9, 16, 25] plt.plot(x, y) plt.show() ``` {#fig-placeholder} {{< lipsum 1 >}} The end after @fig-placeholder. ````

Additionally and if not already given, please share the output of quarto check within a code blocks (i.e., using three backticks ```txt), see https://quarto.org/bug-reports.html#check.

[Minh-AnhHuynh]

My apologies, it seems I have missed this information in that page. Thank you for the informations!