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hangindent= style= One example: margin=10pt,parskip=5pt Figure 18: First paragraph of the caption. This one contains some test, just to show how these options affect the layout of the caption. Second paragraph of the caption. This one contains some text, too, to show how these options affect the layout of the caption. The option hangindent=〈amount〉 is for setting up a hanging indention starting from the second line of each paragraph. If the caption contains just a single paragraph, using this option leads to the same result as the option indention= you already know about. But if the caption contains multiple paragraphs you will notice the difference: format=hang,indention=-.5cm Figure 19: First paragraph of the caption. This one contains some test, just to show how these options affect the layout of the caption. Second paragraph of the caption. This one contains some text, too, to show how these options affect the layout of the caption. format=hang,hangindent=-.5cm Figure 20: First paragraph of the caption. This one contains some test, just to show how these options affect the layout of the caption. Second paragraph of the caption. This one contains some text, too, to show how these options affect the layout of the caption. 3.5 Styles A suitable combination of caption options is called caption style. You can compare them more or less to page styles which you set up with \pagestyle: The caption style provides all settings for a whole caption layout. You switch to an already defined caption style with the option style=〈style name〉 . The caption package usually defines only the style default which puts all options you already know about to the default ones. This means that specifying the option style=default has the same effect as specifying all these options: 10
format=default,labelformat=default,labelsep=default, justification=default,font=default,labelfont=default, textfont=default,margin=0pt,indention=0pt,parindent=0pt hangindent=0pt,singlelinecheck=true Own caption styles can be defined using \DeclareCaptionStyle. (See section 5: “Do it yourself”) 3.6 Skips aboveskip= The spaces above and below the caption are controlled by the skips \abovecaptionskip belowskip= and \belowcaptionskip. The standard LATEX document classes article, report and book set \abovecaptionskip to 10pt and \belowcaptionskip to 0pt. position= Both skips can be changed with the command \setlength, but you can use these options, too: aboveskip=〈amount〉 and belowskip=〈amount〉 . Using \abovecaptionskip and \belowcaptionskip has a major design flaw: If the caption is typeset above (and not below) the figure or table they are not set up very useful at default, because there will be some extra space above the caption but no space between the caption and the figure or table itself. (Remember: \belowcaptionskip is usually set to 0pt.) Please compare the spacing in these small tables: Table 1: A table A B C D A B C D Table 2: A table But you can fix this by using the option position=: It specifies how the spacing above and below the caption will be used: position=top (or position=above) tells the caption package to use the spacing useful for caption above the figure or table and position=bottom (or position=below) tells the caption package to use the spacing useful for captions below the figure or table. (The last one is the default setting except for longtables.) So adding an extra \captionsetup{position=top} to the left example table gives you proper spacing around both captions: 11
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References [1] Frank Mittelbach and
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