[comp.text.tex] captions for figures and tables in LaTeX

zaccone@sol.bucknell.edu (zaccone - 1393) (03/31/91)

I'm helping a friend format her thesis using LaTeX.  She's using the
report style.   One of the grad school's requirements is that the
captions for tables appear above the table, and the the captions for
figures appear below.  I haven't looked at any LaTeX code yet because
it seems like something that someone must have certainly done before.

Has anyone done this?

Rick Zaccone
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zaccone@bucknell.edu

ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa) (03/31/91)

In article <635@hydra.bucknell.edu> zaccone@sol.bucknell.edu (zaccone - 1393) writes:
|I'm helping a friend format her thesis using LaTeX.  She's using the
|report style.   One of the grad school's requirements is that the
|captions for tables appear above the table, and the the captions for
|figures appear below.

I prepared the something similar to the following for a similar, earlier query.
The following .sty file provides for and defines different caption formatting
depending on which float environment it's called within.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% cut here %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% zaccone.sty %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% zaccone.sty---provide for independent formatting for float captions.
% The following is a re-definition of the \@caption macro which lets
% you format your figure captions differently from your table captions, etc.
% Your .sty file must provide for a meaning for, e.g., \@makefigurecaption, etc.
% If you do not, the default \@makecaption will be used.
\long\def\@caption#1[#2]#3{\par\addcontentsline{\csname
  ext@#1\endcsname}{#1}{\protect\numberline{\csname
  the#1\endcsname}{\ignorespaces #2}}\begingroup
    \@parboxrestore
    \normalsize
    \expandafter\let\expandafter\@tempa\csname @make#1caption\endcsname
    \ifx\@tempa\relax\let\@tempa\@makecaption\fi
    \@tempa{\csname fnum@#1\endcsname}{\ignorespaces #3}\par
  \endgroup}
%
% Here is the content of a .sty file containing definitions using the above
% hook.
%
% The following is the same as the \@makecaption in book.sty:
\long\def\@makefigurecaption#1#2{%
 \vskip 10pt 
 \setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{#1. #2}%
 \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\hsize #1. #2\par \else
  \hbox to\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil} %
  \fi
 }
%
% The following is slightly different from the \@makecaption in book.sty:
\long\def\@maketablecaption#1#2{%
 \setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{#1. #2}%
 \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\hsize #1. #2\par \else
  \hbox to\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil} %
  \fi
 \vskip 10pt 
 }

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% cut here %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% zaccone.tex %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% zaccone.tex---illustrate how to use zaccone.sty
\documentstyle{article}
\documentstyle{zaccone}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[h]
Content of figure
\caption{Figure caption}%
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[h]
\caption{Table caption}%
Content of table
\end{table}

\end{document}
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