Questions tagged [captions]
{captions} is about captions for figures, tables and other, custom-defined floats or non-floating illustrations which are formatted to look identical to these floats. A popular package is caption.
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Force figure placement in text
I have a problem when a lot of figures are in question. Some figures tend to "fly around", that is, be a paragraph below, although I placed them before that paragraph. I use code:
\begin{figure}[ht]
\...
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Using \footnote in a figure's \caption
Maybe this is an easy one, but I struggled with this now too long :)
I want to have a footnote in a caption of a figure, see the example.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\caption{a figure caption\footnote{...
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Two figures side by side
How can I put two figures side-by-side? Not two sub-figures, but two actual figures with separate "Fig.: bla bla" captions. A figure is supposed to spread over the entire text width, but I have two ...
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Short captions for figures in \listoffigures
When I use \listoftables and \listoffigures I get in the list long captions that appear next to the tables/figures.
I would like to use short captions for this list which summarize these captions. Is ...
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Why should a table caption be placed above the table?
In the papers I read the caption in figure floats is placed below the figure and in table floats the caption is placed above the table.
I recognize that this is a common style that a lot of people ...
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subcaption vs. subfig: Best package for referencing a subfigure
On this question, a comment by Martin H says: that one should forget about the subfigure and subfig packages and use subcaption. As subfig replaces subfigure, no argument there.
I am currently using ...
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Change caption name of figures
How can I modify the caption name of a figure? For example I have
\caption{This is a figure.}
and by default the caption appears as
Figure 1: This is a figure.
However I want
Fig.1 - This is ...
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Why does an environment's label have to appear after the caption?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\begin{document}
\setcounter{section}{54}
\section{A section with no label}
\begin{algorithm}
\label{myalg}
\caption{An algorithm with the label `myalg'....
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Table and figure side-by-side with independent captions
Looking to put a table and a figure side by side so that the table and figure have their own captions. A crude sketch
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TABLE
| a | b | ...
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Caption on the side of a figure
Can anyone tell me how to get my caption on side of my figure, and at the same time aligned with the top of my figure?
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How to remove figure caption prefix "figure" in beamer
I am trying to remove the caption prefix, "Figure", for my figures in beamer. I tried doing this but it made no difference.
Heres a minimum working example:
As you can see, I have included the ...
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Change the font of figure captions
I would like to italicize my figure captions and make them smaller. How can I do that?
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Subfigures side by side with captions
I am using the following code to put my two figures side by side with different captions,
\begin{figure*}[t!]
\centering
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.5\textwidth}
\centering
\...
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Font size of Figure Caption Header
My question is about changing the font size.
I have to insert two figures side by side. Coming to inserting the captions for the figures individually:
Figure 3: blah blah.....................Figure ...
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How can I modify vertical space between figure and caption?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[draft]{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\setlength\fboxsep{124pt}
\setlength\fboxrule{1pt}
\fbox{\includegraphics{dummy}}
\caption{Dummy caption}...
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