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From: jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley)
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Subject: Re: LaTeX figure \caption question
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Date: 31 Aug 90 01:52:36 GMT
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In article <BJR.90Aug30155525@clarity.Princeton.EDU>,
bjr@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Brian J. Reiser) writes:
|> Is there any simple way to modify the formatting of latex figure
|> captions?  I have some longish captions (approx 3-4 sentences) that
|> are associated with some graphs included in the document as figures.
|> The default formatting for \caption is apparently the normal text
|> size, and if the text is longer than one line, it is in a paragraph
|> the same width as the text.  I would like to have the captions printed
|> slightly smaller, and in a width indented from the width of the text.
|> 
|> At the suggestion of a colleague, I tried defining my own version of
\caption:
|> 
|> \newcommand{\figcaption}[1]{\begin{center}
|> \parbox[t]{5in}{\caption{\protect\small #1}}
|> \end{center}}
...
|> Does anyone have a better suggestion?  

Is this better? The words "Figure 11" are the same size as the text:

\newcommand{\figcaption}[1]{\begin{center}
                                \addtocounter{figure}{1}
				\parbox[t]{5in}{\protect\small 
					Figure \thefigure : #1}
			    \end{center}}

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James Darrell McCauley                 jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu
Dept of Ag. Engineering                          (409) 845-6484
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2117, USA
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