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From: ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa)
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Subject: Re: captions for figures and tables in LaTeX
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Date: 31 Mar 91 05:59:06 GMT
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In article <635@hydra.bucknell.edu> zaccone@sol.bucknell.edu (zaccone - 1393) writes:
|I'm helping a friend format her thesis using LaTeX.  She's using the
|report style.   One of the grad school's requirements is that the
|captions for tables appear above the table, and the the captions for
|figures appear below.

I prepared the something similar to the following for a similar, earlier query.
The following .sty file provides for and defines different caption formatting
depending on which float environment it's called within.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% cut here %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% zaccone.sty %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% zaccone.sty---provide for independent formatting for float captions.
% The following is a re-definition of the \@caption macro which lets
% you format your figure captions differently from your table captions, etc.
% Your .sty file must provide for a meaning for, e.g., \@makefigurecaption, etc.
% If you do not, the default \@makecaption will be used.
\long\def\@caption#1[#2]#3{\par\addcontentsline{\csname
  ext@#1\endcsname}{#1}{\protect\numberline{\csname
  the#1\endcsname}{\ignorespaces #2}}\begingroup
    \@parboxrestore
    \normalsize
    \expandafter\let\expandafter\@tempa\csname @make#1caption\endcsname
    \ifx\@tempa\relax\let\@tempa\@makecaption\fi
    \@tempa{\csname fnum@#1\endcsname}{\ignorespaces #3}\par
  \endgroup}
%
% Here is the content of a .sty file containing definitions using the above
% hook.
%
% The following is the same as the \@makecaption in book.sty:
\long\def\@makefigurecaption#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
 }
%
% The following is slightly different from the \@makecaption in book.sty:
\long\def\@maketablecaption#1#2{%
 \setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{#1. #2}%
 \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\hsize #1. #2\par \else
  \hbox to\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil} %
  \fi
 \vskip 10pt 
 }

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% cut here %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% zaccone.tex %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% zaccone.tex---illustrate how to use zaccone.sty
\documentstyle{article}
\documentstyle{zaccone}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[h]
Content of figure
\caption{Figure caption}%
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[h]
\caption{Table caption}%
Content of table
\end{table}

\end{document}
Arthur Ogawa        Internet: ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov  Ph: 1/415/691-1126
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