Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Booktabs caption alignment problem

[timtico]

Hello guys,

Since a few weeks I'm preparing a LaTeX template which I will use to typeset my PhD thesis.. However I've run into a little problem I could use some help with.
My problem is related to this topic: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... =45&t=4450. But I'm unable to solve it using the floatrow package.

Anyway. I have a booktabs table. The table is horizontally centered and the caption is also horizontally centered. I would like to have the caption start where the Table starts. Instead of having it centered. I'm sure it is something obvious i'm missing here... anyway here is the code:

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%part of my preamble
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[labelfont={bf,sf},labelsep=period,format = plain,margin=0pt,textfont={sf},figurewithin=section,skip= 6pt, singlelinecheck = true]{caption}
\captionsetup[table]{format = plain, justification = raggedright}

\begin{table}[b]
\caption{Lucie's assay}\label{table:lucie}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{@{}lll@{}}
\toprule
\multicolumn{1}{r}{} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Assay condition}\\
\cmidrule (r){2-3} 
\multicolumn{1}{l}{Enzymatic Activity} & substrate & pH\\
\midrule 
x & x & 4.2 \\
x & x & 4.2 \\
x& x) & 6.0 \\
x & x & 8.4 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

Now as some suggested I should be using the floatrow package, using something like:

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\ttabbox{\caption{Lucie's assay}\label{table:lucie}}

However when I do this, the caption becomes a multiline centered caption, very weird. It seems as the floatrow package cannot determine the tablewidth or something.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[sommerfee]

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\ttabbox{\caption{Lucie's assay}\label{table:lucie}}

The correct syntax of \ttabbox is:

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\ttabbox{<caption>}{<tabular>}

[timtico]

Thanks for your fast reply Sommerfee!

After some testing, it still kept centering my caption...
But

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\captionsetup{singlecheck=false}

did the trick!

The following code is working for me.

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\documentclass{article}

%some table testing
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{singlelinecheck = false}
\usepackage{floatrow}
\floatsetup[table]{style=plaintop}

\begin{document}
\section{Results}
\begin{table}[h]
\ttabbox{\caption{Lucie's assay}\label{table:lucie}}
{\begin{tabular}{@{}lll@{}}
\toprule
\multicolumn{1}{r}{} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Assay condition}\\
\cmidrule (r){2-3} 
\multicolumn{1}{l}{Enzymatic Activity} & substrate & pH\\
\midrule 
x & x & 4.2 \\
x & x & 4.2 \\
x& x & 6.0 \\
x& x & 8.4 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}}
\end{table}
\end{document}