floatsindentationparagraphs
I am typesetting a manual, that uses normal indentation for paragraphs. The pages have a lot of figures and tables and I would like to have the paragraph after tables and figures to have no indentation. Currently I just use \noindent, but I am sure there is an easier way?
Can anyone explain how this is achieved after sections? It might give me a pointer as to how to write a macro to do this.
Ok, here is what I did.
As it was suggested by @Raphink, I used tocloft package. All of the sections that I wanted to be at the top level of my TOC (such as contributions, summary, references, etc) I included in TOC as parts. This is because I haven't found a way to adjust only certain sections without changing all sections in TOC. I also don't have any parts in my report, so it doesn't conflict with any existing items.
Then, in order to format them correctly (as regular sections, but with no indentation) I used the following:
\renewcommand{\cftpartfont}{\normalfont} % make parts look like sections in TOC
\renewcommand{\cftpartpagefont}{\normalfont}
\setlength{\cftbeforepartskip}{0pt} % remove spaces before and after chapters
It looks a little clumsy, so if someone knows a better solution, please post your reply.
As for LoF and LoT, I used the following:
\setlength{\cftfigindent}{0pt} % remove indentation from figures in lof
\setlength{\cfttabindent}{0pt} % remove indentation from tables in lot
Hope someone else finds it helpful!
This is all easily possibly using the caption package. Insert the figure you're referencing in your document in the usual way, and add all the remaining figures/tables inside a single float (or two, if need be).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption,lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{caption,lipsum}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\section{A section}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{figure}[ht]
\caption{This is a figure referenced in the document}
\end{figure}
\lipsum[2-50]
\clearpage
\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\rule{100pt}{20pt}
\captionof{table}{This is a table}
\rule{100pt}{20pt}
\captionof{table}{This is a table}
\rule{100pt}{20pt}
\captionof{figure}{This is a figure}
\rule{100pt}{20pt}
\captionof{figure}{This is a figure}
\rule{100pt}{20pt}
\captionof{table}{This is a table}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
caption's \captionof{<float>}{<caption>} allows you to specify the caption of <float> even if you're in a different floating environment. In my MWE, I've mixed the captions of figure and table inside a single figure floating environment.
Best Answer
You asked how it is done for sections:
\sectionuses\@afterheadingwhich puts code in\everyparso that it suppress the indentation in the first paragraph and then reset its own content to empty for the following paragraphs. The LaTeX kernel also has a\@doendpecommand which is e.g. used by lists to suppress the indentation after the list if there is no empty line/\parfollowing. Here two examples how you could use this code yourself (but I doubt that they can be used in the case of real floats.)