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From: asbjorns@stud.cs.uit.no
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Caption size
Keywords: changing caption size
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.094619.1408@hod.uit.no>
Date: 24 Sep 90 09:46:19 GMT
Sender: Asbjoern Saetran.
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
Lines: 31
Originator: asbjorns@stud.cs.uit.no

I have modified the original \@makecaption command,

\long\def\@makecaption#1#2{
 \vskip 10pt 
 \setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{#1: #2}
 \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\hsize #1: #2\par \else \hbox
to\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil} 
 \fi}

to:

\long\def\@makecaption#1#2{
 \vskip 10pt 
 \setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{#1: \protect{\footnotesize #2}}
 \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\hsize #1: #2\par \else \hbox
to\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil} 
 \fi}


This was done to have the text of the caption typeset in footnotesize.  It 
works fine, except when the text of the caption is more than one line.  Then
the size is suddenly reset to normalsize, and the whole caption is typeset
using that size.  

Why does this happen, and what can I do?

Asbjoern Saetran,
University of Tromsoe,
Norway.

asbjorns@stud.cs.uit.no.