Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Table legend under table

[albart]

Hello,

at this moment, I am struggling to place the legend of a table underneath the table but keeping the title (Table 1, for example) above the table.

In the following code I provide a small table, where the title and the legend both are placed above.

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h]
\begin{center}
  \caption{Example table}
  \begin{tabular}{ccc}\hline
    1&1&1\\
    2&2&2\\
    3&3&3\\
    \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Thanks,

Albart

[gmedina]

Hi,

using a recent version of the caption package, you can use the standard \caption command for the table caption and the \caption* command to typeset the legend. Take a look at the following simple example:

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h]
  \centering
  \caption{Example table}
  \begin{tabular}{ccc}\hline
    1&1&1\\
    2&2&2\\
    3&3&3\\\hline
  \end{tabular}
  \caption*{The legeng text goes here.}
\end{table}

\end{document}

[albart]

Hi,

thanks for your reply, it solved the point but a new point arose.

Following the article http://www.latex-community.org/index.ph ... Itemid=112, I renewed the @makecaption macro. My code is now as follows:

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{endfloat}
\usepackage{caption}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@makecaption}[2]{{\centering   \vskip\abovecaptionskip \bfseries #1} #2}
\newcommand{\@makecaptionZ}[2]{%
  \vskip\abovecaptionskip
  \sbox\@tempboxa{#1}%
  \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\hsize
    #1\par
\else
\global \@minipagefalse
\hb@xt@\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil}%
\fi
\vskip\belowcaptionskip}
\makeatother

\begin{document}



\begin{table}[h]
\begin{center}
  \caption{}
  \begin{tabular}{ccc}\hline
    1&1&1\\
    2&2&2\\
    3&3&3\\
    \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption*{Example table}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Using this code, the title of the table appears above and below the table. It seems that the renewed @makecaption interferes with other definitions. How could I solve this, while keeping a correct formatting of the captions for tables and for figures?

Thanks again,

Albart Coster

[sommerfee]

Redefining \@makecaption is a bad idea when using the caption package since the caption package comes with a very own version of \@makecaption.

So when using the caption package it's best to try to map all own redefinitions regarding captions to the options of the caption package instead.

So for example

\renewcommand{\@makecaption}[2]{{\centering \vskip\abovecaptionskip \bfseries #1} #2}

looks to me like it could be replaced by

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\captionsetup{singlelinecheck=off,labelfont=bf,labelsep=space}

(BTW: Don't understand what the definition of \@makecaptionZ is good for since it seems not to be used at all.)

Axel

[albart]

Hello,

thanks! That solved it. I included the part of @makecaptionsZ following the article mentioned, but now I realize that it is not needed. Need to increase my Latex knowledge.

Albart