Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ 2 table questions: align caption & notes environment

[PGScooter]

Hi,

I cannot figure out how to align the caption of a table. My caption is at the top and I am using tabularx package. I would like to align it to the left.

Also, what is the best way to put notes in a table? Is there an environment or package that is recommended to use?

thank you

[localghost]

[...] I cannot figure out how to align the caption of a table. My caption is at the top and I am using tabularx package. I would like to align it to the left. [...]

That's definitely a job for the caption package.

[...] Also, what is the best way to put notes in a table? Is there an environment or package that is recommended to use? [...]

Try the threeparttable package. Since the package has no manual, you have to look at the *.sty file itself to get a short description of the provided commands and environments.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[corderin]

Hi,

if with notes you are thinking on table footnotes, my proposal is the minipage environment, it works fine. Try with:

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\begin{table}[!ht]
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\captionof{table}[TOC title]{\label{tab:my_table}My table with footnotes.}
\begin{center}
\resizebox{0.9\textwidth}{!} {
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|} 
\hline
A\footnote[1]{Uppercase a.}   &  B\\
\hline
C   &  D\footnote[2]{Another footnote.}\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\end{table}

Add these two packages

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\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{mpfnmark}
\renewcommand*{\thempfootnote}{\fnsymbol{mpfootnote}}

The second package let you define the symbols you are using in the footnotes using renewcommand like it is shown...

That's definitely a job for the caption package.

The boxhandler package may also work...

[corderin]

I have found a new solution the sidecap package!!!

I hope this is what you are looking for!

[PGScooter]

great! thank you for the replies. It's nice to have a few different approaches to a problem.

thanks!

[nanomir]

Hi,

I just need to also like to left-align a caption to a figure, and saw this:

[...] I cannot figure out how to align the caption of a table. My caption is at the top and I am using tabularx package. I would like to align it to the left. [...]

That's definitely a job for the caption package.

So, I took a look at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ ... on-eng.pdf, and the word "align" is mentioned only three times in it, here:

The command
\sidecaptionvpos{hfloat typei}{hposi}
sets the vertical position of the side-caption. hposi can be either ‘t’ (for top alignment), ‘b’ (for
bottom alignment), or ‘c’ (for center alignment).

That is - no mention of left alignment ... Just to make myself clear, what I'd like to do, is move the caption to where the arrows indicate:


Any suggestions on what could be used to achieve this?

Thanks....

[localghost]

Just give the option singlelinecheck=false to the caption package as described in the manual (Section 2.2 - Justification, p. 8f).


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[nanomir]

Localghost,

Just give the option singlelinecheck=false to the caption package as described in the manual (Section 2.2 - Justification, p. 8f).

Thanks for the great advice - indeed, that is it.. Unfortunately the 'align' terminology sticks too much for me, so I missed the singlelinecheck Finally this is what worked for me (intended to show a figure inside a minipage, which cannot be done with figure):

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\begin{raggedright}
\includegraphics[width=4.3957in,height=0.3957in]{myimage.jpg}
\captionsetup{singlelinecheck=off,justification=raggedright}
\captionof{figure}{\textit{Picture zero}}
\label{fig:piczero}
\end{raggedright}

Thanks again !!!

[localghost]

This seems a little bit too complicated to me. I worked out another short example.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,singlelinecheck=false]{caption}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\parindent0em

\begin{document}
  \blindtext

  \begin{figure}[!ht]
    \centering
    \begin{minipage}{0.5\textwidth}      % Desired width of the figure
      \rule{\linewidth}{0.5\linewidth}   % To be replaced with graphics file
      \caption{Dummy Figure}\label{fig:dummy}
    \end{minipage}
  \end{figure}

  \blindtext
\end{document}

The graphics file inside should have the same width as the minipage environment. This can easily be done by specifying its width as the current line width.

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\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{graphicsfile}

This way you get a centred figure with a left aligned caption.

[gmedina]

I'd like to suggest another simpler approach using the floatrow package:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,singlelinecheck=false]{caption}
\usepackage{floatrow}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\ffigbox[\FBwidth]
  {\caption{Dummy figure}\label{fig:test}}
  {\rule{7cm}{4cm}}%just to simulate an actual figure
\end{figure}

\end{document}