General ⇒ caption of the tables and figures

[c.mafla]

Hello to everybody.

My question is: How can i put the caption of the tables and figures before the float itself??

Thanks

Carlos - Colombia

[localghost]

Just write the caption inside the float environment before the actual contents.

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\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  \caption{Dummy figure}\label{fig:dummy}
  \rule{4cm}{3cm}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[!ht]
  \centering
  \caption{Dummy table}\label{tab:dummy}
  \begin{tabular}{ll}
    ...
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

Note that typographically correct captions of figures are placed below and captions of tables are placed above.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[c.mafla]

Jajajaj..thanks, that was easier than that i expect.

I also believe that the captions should be below the float, but the 'Norma Técnica Colombiana' (Colombian
technical standards) doesn't see that way.

Thanks again.

Carlos - Colombia

[mwmiller]

I am brand new to the forum and quite new to LaTeX. I also have a question about table captions and thought I'd post the question in this existing thread.

How do I replace a colon with a period in the table heading?

The code below produces a table heading and caption that reads:

"TABLE A: This is my caption."

I want it to read:

"TABLE A. This is my caption."

Thank you for any help.


\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}


\renewcommand{\tablename}{TABLE}
\renewcommand{\thetable}{\Alph{table}}

\begin{document}

\begin{table*}
\caption{This is my caption.}
\centering%
\begin{tabular} {l }
\hline
\\
Name \\ \hline
\\
Arnold \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table*}

\end{document}

[localghost]

Take a look at the caption package. It lets you customize captions of floats in many ways. Take the following example.

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\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,labelsep=period]{caption}

Other capabilities of this package are described in its documentation.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[mwmiller]

Thank you! That was very helpful.