Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Why the caption is always aligned at the left?

[mojin]

I found in all my figures and tables, all captions are aligned at the left. But I really want to align them at the center. I don't know where to set it?

Here are the code that I used

\usepackage{graphics}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[height=150mm]{flowchart.eps}
\caption{General procedure}
\end{center}
\label{fig:flowchart}
\end{figure}

[josephwright]

Look at the caption package: the LaTeX kernel is not very helpful with the sort of thing.

[mojin]

Thanks for your response. But I couldn't find caption.sty in my computer. I added the following lines, but it's still rendering the caption to the left.

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\usepackage{amsmath}    % need for subequations
\usepackage{graphics}
\usepackage{verbatim}   % useful for program listings
\usepackage{color}      % use if color is used in text
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{hyperref}   % use for hypertext links, including those to external documents and URLs
\usepackage{thesis}
\usepackage{float, rotating, subfigure}  % use for side-by-side figures
\usepackage[center]{caption}
\usepackage[toc]{appendix}

[daleif]

it caption.sty is not found, then please upgrade, it is a fairly standard package these days

and if caption.sty does not exists

\usepackage[center]{caption}

would cause an error when compiling your document.

And by the way please post minimal examples not document sniplets.

[mojin]

thanks to all guys. The file is built upon a template. After some test, I found the following command

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\makeatletter

make the caption align at the left.

[phi]

After some test, I found the following command

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\makeatletter

make the caption align at the left.

No, that's definitively not the case. \makeatletter does something entirely different and should not appear in "normal" documents. There must be something really wrong in your document if things like that are happening. Again, please post an MWE so that we can see what's going wrong.