[Tex/LaTex] IEEE template and caption=false option for subcaption package

ieeetransubcaption

According to the IEEE transactions information (tar file here contains IEEEtran_HOWTO.pdf along with the class files)

Axel Sommerfeldt’s modern and actively maintained subcaption.sty package [23] can not be recommended at this time because it does not provide an option to prevent the underlying caption.sty from taking control of main caption formatting away from IEEEtran.

Instead they recommend using subfig invoked like this \usepackage{subfig}

Are there any plans to add a caption=false flag to subcaption? It seems that subfig has not been touched since 2005, so I would rather stick with subcaption if possible.

EDIT: There is a workaround posted here, but it involves re-defining how captions should be formatted, which seems to partially defeat the purpose of using a supplied style file.

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An answer provided by Michael Shell gives this workaround:

\makeatletter
\let\MYcaption\@makecaption
\makeatother

\usepackage[font=footnotesize]{subcaption}

\makeatletter
\let\@makecaption\MYcaption
\makeatother

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You can use the same subfigure environment for more than one figure:

\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,10pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.6\textwidth}
            \centering
            {\rule{3cm}{2cm}}\quad
            {\rule{3cm}{2cm}}
            \caption{Noon}
    \end{subfigure}\\
     \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.6\textwidth}
            \centering
            {\rule{3cm}{2cm}}\quad
            {\rule{3cm}{2cm}}
            \caption{Midnight}
    \end{subfigure}%
    \caption{Cool (left) and uncool (right) pictures; Recorded at noon (a) and at midnight (b).}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] subcaption: `caption’ package not loaded

Since sig-alternate defines its own \caption command, the caption package is not really compatible with it; subcaption might work, but the result is not guaranteed. You can do with subfig:

\PassOptionsToPackage{demo}{graphicx} % just for the example
\documentclass{sig-alternate}

\usepackage[caption=false]{subfig}
\usepackage{lipsum} % just for the example

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-2]

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering

\subfloat[Comparison one]{%
  \includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{figures/fig3}%
  \label{Fig:Speed}%
}

\subfloat[Comparison two]{%
  \includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{figures/fig3}%
  \label{Fig:Time}%
}
\end{figure}

\lipsum
\end{document}

The two lines marked just for the example are for producing the image, don't use them yourself.

Don't use scale=, but prefer setting the width. You should probably use multiples of \columnwidth rather than \textwidth, as the class produces two column documents.

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