Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ split a long caption across pages

[pierre]

Hi everyone,

Here I come with a new problem.
I have a huge figure that takes almost the entirety of a page.
It is so huge that it caption (which is kinda long too) ends up going out of the page.
I wanted to know if it was possible to explicitly split the caption.
I don't mind if the figure is not a float anymore or this kind of thing.
All I would like is to have the guaranty that the second part of the caption appears directly on the page following of the one of the figure.

If I am too confusing, here is what I would like to obtain:

page N : huge figure + beginning of caption
page N+1: end of caption (at the top if possible)

Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Pierre.

[gmedina]

Hi,

try something along these lines:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{lipsum} %jus to generate text for the example

\begin{document}
\listoffigures

\clearpage
{%
  \centering
  \rule{3cm}{.9\textheight}% to simulate an actual figure
  \captionlistentry[figure]{An image with a long caption}  
}
% The caption:
\noindent\textbf{\figurename~\thefigure}:
\lipsum[1-3]
\bigskip
Regular text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
 text text text text text text

\end{document}

If you dont want this figure to be listed in the LoF, you can drop the line with the \captionlistentry command and manually increase the figure counter.

[pierre]

Sorry for the delay.
Thanks a lot. It worked perfectly.

[sommerfee]

A different idea: Using the fltpage package the caption would be placed on the page below or after the figure.