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From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (dhosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Latex figure captions
Summary: NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO
Keywords: bad user bad user bad user
Message-ID: <4708@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 28 Feb 90 06:15:56 GMT
References: <3186@sunspot.cme.nist.gov> <14278@reed.UUCP>
Organization: Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <14278@reed.UUCP> mojo@reed.bitnet (O(x log x)) writes:
>In article <3186@sunspot.cme.nist.gov> anderson@cme.nist.gov (William E. Anderson) writes:
>}We would like to produce figure captions that are in a smaller font
>}than the rest of the text.  Doing things like:

>}   \caption[]{\small .....}

>}produces a small font but with a normal interline spacing.  We have

>Can't you just change \baselineskip inside the braces?  I haven't tried (no
>captions in my thesis yet) but it seems like the natural solution.

One should NEVER EVER EVER EVER put anything between \begin{document}
and \end{document} in a LaTeX file that indicates the visual appearance
of some document structure (picture mode excluded) unless one is the
typesetting manager at the document's final site making some final
adjustments to the appearance of the document. If you keep this up, I
will send a large nun named "Guido" to rap your fingernails with a ruler.

The desired change can be accomplished with the following code in
a document style option:

% This is smallcaptions.sty as of 2/27/90
% Written by Don Hosek to save the world from bad LaTeX practices thank you very much.

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

For reasons why your current practice is BADBADBADBAD, insert a 
\listoffigures or \listoftables into your document.

-Don (am I as acerbic as Leslie Lamport yet?) Hosek
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