General ⇒ Making text small in figure captions

[ijc]

Hi,

I'm trying to make all the text in my figure captions small, but efforts so far have failed.

I tried using...

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\usepackage[small]{caption}

But when compiling it I get the following error...
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/caption/caption.sty:122:Package caption Error: No value specified for parskip. \ProcessOptionsWithKV{caption}

I google'd the error but couldn't see the solution.

Any ideas? Or other ways to do it?

Thanks in advance for your help,

IJC

[sommerfee]

There is an option clash regarding the option "parskip" between KOMA-Script and the caption package 3.0. If was finally solved in version 3.0i, so the easiest way to get rid of the problem is updating the caption package. (The current version 3.1 is adapted to KOMA-Script, so an update is recommended here anyway.)

[ijc]

Thanks sommerfee.

I'm on lab computers though, so I can't easily download the new package onto the system.

Is there another command I could use?

I tried...

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%\newcommand{\captionfonts}{\small}

But it doesn't actually change the side of the captions...

[sommerfee]

I'm on lab computers though, so I can't easily download the new package onto the system.

You could place the new caption.sty and caption3.sty into your document directory instead.

Or maybe I can offer you a workaround for this, but for this I need to know the version number of the caption package at your lab.

But if you just want the captions to be small, you could simply use:

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\addtokomafont{caption}{\small}

which needs no extra package at all, this is a feature of KOMA-Script itself. (This sounds like the best solution to me.)

[ijc]

When I put...

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\documentclass[parskip]{cs4rep}

\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{rotating}
%\usepackage[small]{caption}
%\newcommand{\captionfonts}{\small}
\addtokomafont{caption}{\small}

%\setcounter{secnumdepth}{5} 
%\setcounter{tocdepth}{5}

\begin{document}

The following appears...

[PDFLaTeX] finished with exit status 1
./MainReport.tex:8:Undefined control sequence. \addtokomafont
./MainReport.tex:8:Missing \begin{document}. \addtokomafont{c

Issues have arose in the past with things due to the template we have to use -- http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/course ... cs4rep.cls
...but I don't see anything affecting captions.

On the other track...is this the information you need:

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\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1994/12/01]
\ProvidesPackage{caption}[2006/01/12 v3.0i Customising captions (AR)]
\RequirePackage{caption3}[2005/12/04]

I'm using Kile by the way to manage the whole LaTeX thing.

Thank you so much for your help

IJC

[ijc]

As annoying as it would be, I could just go through all my figures and change the font in each of the caption...

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\begin{figure}[htp]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{blah.png}
\caption{blah blah blah}
\label{fig:ise}
\end{figure}

I tried putting \small{ \caption....} but it didn't appreciate that...

[sommerfee]

\documentclass[parskip]{cs4rep}

I'm sorry, since you talked about the global option "parskip" I was assuming you are using one of the KOMA-Script document classes. Sorry for the confusion I made.

On the other track...is this the information you need:

Yes, thanks. This should work for this version (and has no negative effect on the current version):

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\usepackage{caption3} % load caption package kernel first
\DeclareCaptionOption{parskip}[]{} % disable "parskip" caption option
\usepackage[small]{caption}

[ijc]

You are a legend!

Thank you for all your help, it worked a treat.

IJC