I would like to italicize my figure captions and make them smaller. How can I do that?
[Tex/LaTex] Change the font of figure captions
captionsfonts
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Instead of using a floating environment which can't handle page breaks you can use a simple list environment. To set a caption you can use the command \captionof. The command is provided by
- the package
capt-of, - the package
captionor - a KOMA-Class
scrreprt,scrbookandscrartcl
Here an example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\usepackage{capt-of}
\begin{document}
\kant[1-2]
\noindent\hrulefill
\begin{center}
\rule{3cm}{3cm}
\captionof{figure}[short caption]{%
\kant[4-6]}
\end{center}
\noindent\hrulefill
\kant[1]
\end{document}
To use different captions for the same float use the optional argument
\caption[<opt>]{<main>}
So the <opt> will be used in the List of... and the <main> will be used together the float.
Best Answer
It can be done by loading the
captionpackage and by choosing options or\captionsetup, for instance:The caption package provides a lot more feature and is very well documented.