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From: tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
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Subject: Re: font size in LaTeX caption
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Date: 7 Apr 91 18:29:25 GMT
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In article <8713@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> jhgillespie@ucdavis.edu writes:
>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!
>

Try putting your size changing command in the definition of \@caption. That
is, substitute your own size command for \normalsize below:

\long\def\@caption#1[#2]#3{\par\addcontentsline{\csname
  ext@#1\endcsname}{#1}{\protect\numberline{\csname 
  the#1\endcsname}{\ignorespaces #2}}\begingroup
    \@parboxrestore
    \normalsize
    \@makecaption{\csname fnum@#1\endcsname}{\ignorespaces #3}\par
  \endgroup}

Tim Van Zandt
tvz@princeton.edu
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