Document Classes ⇒ caption and nonfloat package: disabling position

[l0calh05t]

How do I disable the position option of the caption package?
As is it always produces the error:

! Package caption Error: Usage of the `position' option is incompatible
(caption) to the `nonfloat' package.

I tried adding it after the nonfloat package (in case it gets disable automatically), and tried setting position=false and position=b (default latex behavior). None of these disabled the position option.

[localghost]

You should omit the (very old) nonfloat package and find other ways of typesetting captions with preventing them to float. The caption package offers the \captionof command which can be used in a grouping environment.

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\begin{center}
  \includegraphics{dummy}
  \captionof{figure}[ToC entry]{Dummy caption}
\end{center}

Refer to the documentation of this package to learn more.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[l0calh05t]

It might be old but it worked better than using only caption. caption -- even with position set to auto -- does not manage to put the correct spacing between captions above tables (both in the float environment, as in any other environment using captionof) and the table.

EDIT: Never mind. I found out it was the use of KOMA-Script which was bothering the caption package

[localghost]

[...] caption -- even with position set to auto -- does not manage to put the correct spacing between captions above tables (both in the float environment, as in any other environment using captionof) and the table.

Considering that you use Version 3.0 or higher of the caption package, this should be no problem. The package offers settings for those cases.

[...] Never mind. I found out it was the use of KOMA-Script which was bothering the caption package

That shouldn't occur but also may depend on the used versions.

[l0calh05t]

I'm using the newest version available for MikTeX (packaged on 2008-04-15, so it's quite new)

[localghost]

I'm using the newest version available for MikTeX (packaged on 2008-04-15, so it's quite new)

So do I. Without any problems. But I never used nonfloat.

[l0calh05t]

I'm not using nonfloat anymore. The problem (with correct position) is caused by using KOMA-Script with caption.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

I'm not using nonfloat anymore. The problem (with correct position) is caused by using KOMA-Script with caption.

Could you provide a minimal example that shows the problem?

Stefan

[l0calh05t]

Sure:

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\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[labelfont=bf,position=auto]{caption}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Caption that is too close to table}
\begin{tabular}{|c|}
\hline
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

My solution was to use the tablecaptionabove option for the document class.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could use

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\captionsetup{belowskip=10pt}

after \begin{table} or into your preamble if you always want the space below.

Stefan