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From: mikew@wheeler.wrcr.unr.edu (Mike Whitbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: LaTeX table caption wrap how ?
Summary: how to wrap captions
Keywords: captions tables wrap latex
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Date: 5 Dec 89 23:07:57 GMT
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I would like the captions under tables to be limited in
horizontal extent to the width of the table. I think this looks
better than what I get by default. Also I have several small 
tables which I would like to squeeze onto one page. A sample
follows:

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\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[p]
% \begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}\hline
 24 & bladder & Initial \\ 
 hour & pump & value \\ 
\hline
\hline
            .69 &             .69 &             .66 \\
              .7 &             .69 &             .69 \\
              .8 &             .69 &             .69 \\
              .7 &             .69 &             .69 \\
              .7 &             .69 &             .69 \\
 \hline
\hline
\end{tabular}
% \end{center}
\caption{NO3 recovery (mg/l) from run 16327PL\label{XXX}}
\end{table}

\end{document}
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Note that as is the caption is wider than the table-- how can I
get the caption (in a box?) just the width of the table. Table
widths may vary some. This LaTeX file was in fact written with
an awk script extracting raw data from a database file; I would
like to keep the process 'automated' rather than do hand-tuning
if possible.


Thanks in advance.
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