Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Caption aligned to left Side of Figure

[jlatex]

I would like to make my caption aligned below the left side of the figure such as:

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      |_______________________________|
      Figure 1: This is my caption

instead of

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|_______________________________|
Figure 1: This is my caption

or

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          |_______________________________|
Figure 1: This is my caption

I have tried looking at the caption package but I can only get the caption to be left justified with the margin not the figure.

[localghost]

You could use the threeparttable package. It provides also the measuredfigure environment which allows to do what you want.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{threeparttable}

\captionsetup{%
  font=small,
  labelfont=bf,
  singlelinecheck=false,
  tableposition=top
}

\begin{document}
  \begin{figure}[!ht]
    \centering
    \begin{measuredfigure}
      \rule{6.4cm}{3.6cm}
      \caption{Dummy figure}\label{fig:dummy}
    \end{measuredfigure}
  \end{figure}
\end{document}

The floatrow package has similar capabilities (and much more beyond that).


Thorsten

[shadgrind]

You could use the boxhandler package, which uses left-aligned captions by default:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{boxhandler}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
This is a paragraph of text, followed by a
centered figure with a left-justified caption,
called Figure \ref{fig:somepic}.

\begin{center}
\bxfigure[h]{\label{fig:somepic}Some figure}{
 \includegraphics{picture.png}
}
\end{center}
\end{document}

[daviddoria]

shadgrind, if I change

\includegraphics{picture.png}

to

\fbox{Dummy figure}

so I can try it without a picture.png, the output is not what I would expect (see attached).

[daviddoria]

localghost - I tried doing this with floatrow as you suggested, but it doesn't seem to respect the 'width' option of includegraphics.

Here is a demo without includegraphics to show that it works:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{floatrow}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\ffigbox[\FBwidth]
{\caption{caption text caption text caption text caption text 
caption text caption text caption text caption text 
caption text caption text caption text caption text }\label{...}}
{\fbox{Dummy Figure}}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

And then this works correctly (though you need a dummy.png in the folder, but as that is the part I'm troubleshooting I can't make a MWE without it):

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{floatrow}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\ffigbox[\FBwidth]
{\caption{caption text caption text caption text caption text 
caption text caption text caption text caption text 
caption text caption text caption text caption text }\label{...}}
{\includegraphics{dummy}}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Then finally, this does not work correctly - the caption is wider than the image:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{floatrow}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\ffigbox[\FBwidth]
{\caption{caption text caption text caption text caption text 
caption text caption text caption text caption text 
caption text caption text caption text caption text }\label{...}}
{\fbox{Dummy Figure}} % replace this with the includegraphics line as below
{\includegraphics[width=.4\linewidth]{dummy}} % the caption does not respect the 'width'
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

David