I am using this for captions:
\usepackage[font=small,format=plain,labelfont=bf,up,textfont=normal,up]{caption}
But they all come out centred – I want them aligned with the left margin – how can I do this?
[Tex/LaTex] How to left-align a caption
captionshorizontal alignment
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No need for an extra package; since you are loading caption, you can use its features:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,fleqn,titlepage]{report}
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{width=.75\textwidth,font={bf,scriptsize},skip=0.3cm,within=none}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Test}
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Load of stuff above the table which is wider than the table, can use width to limit that as above but want it centralised, also might be numbers in here which means when I want to embolden the entire caption from the preamle so that it does it for all figures in my document that the numbers like this $n=1,2,3,4,5,6$ and $7$ will embolden too. If I put this in at the moment it looks like my actual text and so there is lttle way to discern between the two.}
\begin{tabular}{| l | l | l |}
\hline
Thing1 & Thing2 & Thing3 \\ \hline
blah1 & blah2 & blah3 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\label{table:stuff}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Use the caption package and its justification=raggedright option. If desired, add singlelinecheck=false to make sure that single-line captions are also typeset raggedright.
\documentclass{article}
% Optional: float content (apart from caption) centered
\makeatletter
\g@addto@macro\@floatboxreset\centering
\makeatother
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup[table]{justification=raggedright,singlelinecheck=false}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\rule{1cm}{1cm}
\caption{A figure}
\end{figure}
\begin{table}
(Tabular material)
\caption{A table}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Add the options
justification=justified,singlelinecheck=false. This is described in thecaptionmanual.