[Tex/LaTex] Change caption font size

captionsfontstables

I want to change the font size of a single rotated table caption (definitely not all the captions in all my tables/figures)

Right now I can wrap the text inside the \caption around a \scriptsize{} command, but that will change the font also in the Tables Index which is really bad.

I'm compiling with pdflatex.

Here's what the table looks like:

\begin{landscape}
 \begin{table}
  \centering
  \footnotesize{
   \begin{tabular}{l|c|c|}
   \hline
   blah & blah & blah
   \hline
   \end{tabular}
  }
  \caption{Lots of words...}
  \label{table-label}
 \end{table}
\end{landscape}

Best Answer

If your document class is compatible with the caption package, you can use its \captionsetup command for the particular table (I removed parts of your code not relevant to the caption issue):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}

\listoftables

\begin{table}
\captionsetup{font=scriptsize}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lc}
  \hline
  text & text \\
  \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Lots of words...}
\label{table-label}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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