LaTeX forum ⇒ Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ How to let my fonts smaller?

[yaozhao]

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\begin{table}
\caption {\label{tab:table1} SUMMARY STATISTICS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS BY INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS}

My title of table is:SUMMARY STATISTICS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS BY INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS

How to let it be smaller to ensure it could be within one line?

[Bartman]

The font size of the table captions should be the same. The package caption can set the font size for all captions in a document or only for one.

[Ijon Tichy]

Don't use capitals for all letters. Mixed case text is less wide and better to read.

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\documentclass{article}
 
\begin{document}
 
\begin{table}
 \caption{SUMMARY STATISTICS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS BY INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS}
 \addtocounter{table}{-1}%
 \caption{Summary statistics for contributions by individual contributors}
\end{table}
 
\end{document}

BTW: Terms in capitals should be letter-spaced, to improve the readability and typograph:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{microtype}
\begin{document}
 
\begin{table}
 \caption{\textls{% Use poor man's letter spacing of microtype
     SUMMARY STATISTICS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS BY INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS}}
 \addtocounter{table}{-1}%
 \caption{SUMMARY STATISTICS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS BY INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS}
 \addtocounter{table}{-1}%
 \caption{Summary statistics for contributions by individual contributors}
\end{table}
 
\end{document}