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From: jhgillespie@ucdavis.edu
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Subject: font size in LaTeX caption
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Date: 5 Apr 91 23:00:19 GMT
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My publisher just informed me that my figure and table captions must be in 8pt
but I can't figure out how to do it.  I would like to modify book.sty rather
than each \caption{} in the book. Whatever I try changes the font size but
never the baselineskip (I'm sprinkled \setlength{\baselineskip}{9pt} liberally
though the definition of \@makecaption but to no avail.)  I thought I would be
able to do the entire book without needing to learn TeX, however..... Help!

John Gillespie              jhgillespie@ucdavis.edu
Department of Genetics
University of California
Davis CA 95616