From the pandoc documentation I know how to insert an image
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#images
Now I want to align two images in the same row, h
Expanding on from John's answer, if you do want a single caption under two side by side figures, a 'hack' would be to do this:
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Example.png){width=60%}
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Example.png){width=40%}
\begin{figure}[!h]
\caption{A single caption for the two subfigures}
\end{figure}
This results in one caption for two images placed side by side. You might need to tweak each individual image's width setting, or the !h caption placement specifier to get things looking like this:
I found this helpful because you don't have to download the picture off the internet as in a pure LaTeX \subfigure
solution. I.e. just use pandoc markdown to get the image, and LaTeX to generate the caption.
If you want to go crazy, you can actually use the same idea above to make subfigure captions like so:
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Example.png){width=60%}
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Example.png){width=40%}
\begin{figure}[!h]
\begin{subfigure}[t]{0.6\textwidth}
\caption{Caption for the left subfigure}
\end{subfigure}
\hfill
\begin{subfigure}[t]{0.4\textwidth}
\caption{Caption for the right subfigure}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{A single caption for the two subfigures}
\end{figure}
Edit 20180910:
You'll need to include the following packages in the pandoc YAML frontmatter/header:
header-includes: |
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}