[Tex/LaTex] Let caption float into margin

captionsfloatsmargins

I searched for a long time to find a solution to let a caption of a figure and/or a table expand into the outside margin. I'm able to get a figure/table where the width is textwidth plus marginparwidth. See my MWE down below using a solution on stackexchange.

EDIT: Thanks to Steven B. Segletes, who found the right question, I was able to fix this with the command \captionsetup{margin={0pt,-\marginparwidth}} using the caption-package. I edited the code below, too.

\documentclass[%
    12pt,
    BCOR=15mm,
    captions=tableheading,
    DIV=current,
    ]{scrbook}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}

\usepackage[
    top=30mm,
    bottom=40mm,
    inner=30mm,
    outer=55mm,
    marginparsep=5mm,
    marginparwidth=30mm,
    ]{geometry}

\usepackage[leqno, fleqn]{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{array, tabularx}

\usepackage{ifoddpage}
\newlength\fullwidth\fullwidth=\textwidth \advance\fullwidth by \marginparwidth

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
    \checkoddpage
    \edef\side{\ifoddpage l\else r\fi}
    \makebox[\textwidth][\side]{% 
        \includegraphics[width=\fullwidth]{figure}
    }%
    \captionsetup{margin={0pt,-\marginparwidth}}
    \caption{Long captiontext do get two lines, so I can see, if the caption expands into the margin.\label{fig:label}}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[h]
    \captionsetup{margin={0pt,-\marginparwidth}}
    \caption{Instabile Isotope können unter Aussendung von Kernteilchen zerfallen. Dabei bilden sie neue Isotope.\label{tab:radiozerfall}}
    \checkoddpage
    \edef\side{\ifoddpage l\else r\fi}
    \makebox[\textwidth][\side]{% 
        \begin{tabularx}{1.01\fullwidth}{>{\kern-\tabcolsep}XXXXXX<{\kern-\tabcolsep}}
        \toprule
        Produkt       & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Strahlungs-} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Eigenschaften der Strahlungsteilchen}  \\
                       & teilchen           & bezeichnung          & Kernladungs\-zahl & Nukleonen\-zahl & Durchdrin\-gung \\
        $^{A-4}_{Z-2}\text{E}$ & He-Kern            & $\alpha$-Strahlung   & $+2$              & 4               & gering          \\
        $^{A}_{Z+1}\text{E}$   & Elektron           & $\beta$-Strahlung    & $-1$              & 0               & mittel          \\
        unverändert            & Photon             & $\gamma$-Strahlung   & $\phantom{-}0$    & 0               & groß            \\ \bottomrule
        \end{tabularx}}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

Here's an options using the caption package and its margin key (I added the showframe option to geometry so as to have a visual help for the page layout; I also added \marginparsep to the width of the figure, table and captions, but this is optional):

\documentclass[%
    12pt,
    BCOR=15mm,
    captions=tableheading,
    DIV=current,
    ]{scrbook}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}

\usepackage[
showframe,
    top=30mm,
    bottom=40mm,
    inner=30mm,
    outer=55mm,
    marginparsep=5mm,
    marginparwidth=30mm,
    ]{geometry}

\usepackage[leqno, fleqn]{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{array, tabularx}

\usepackage{ifoddpage}
\newlength\fullwidth\fullwidth=\textwidth \advance\fullwidth by \marginparwidth
\advance\fullwidth by \marginparsep
\usepackage{caption}

\newlength\extraWd
\setlength\extraWd{\dimexpr\marginparwidth+\marginparsep\relax}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
    \captionsetup{margin={0cm,-\extraWd}}
    \checkoddpage
    \edef\side{\ifoddpage l\else r\fi}
    \makebox[\textwidth][\side]{% 
        \includegraphics[width=\fullwidth]{figure}
    }%
    \caption{Long captiontext do get two lines, so I can see, if the caption expands into the margin.\label{fig:label}}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[h]
    \captionsetup{margin={0cm,-\extraWd}}
    \caption{Instabile Isotope können unter Aussendung von Kernteilchen zerfallen. Dabei bilden sie neue Isotope.\label{tab:radiozerfall}}
    \checkoddpage
    \edef\side{\ifoddpage l\else r\fi}
    \makebox[\textwidth][\side]{% 
        \begin{tabularx}{1.01\fullwidth}{>{\kern-\tabcolsep}XXXXXX<{\kern-\tabcolsep}}
        \toprule
        Produkt       & \multicolumn{2}{c}{Strahlungs-} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Eigenschaften der Strahlungsteilchen}  \\
                       & teilchen           & bezeichnung          & Kernladungs\-zahl & Nukleonen\-zahl & Durchdrin\-gung \\
        $^{A-4}_{Z-2}\text{E}$ & He-Kern            & $\alpha$-Strahlung   & $+2$              & 4               & gering          \\
        $^{A}_{Z+1}\text{E}$   & Elektron           & $\beta$-Strahlung    & $-1$              & 0               & mittel          \\
        unverändert            & Photon             & $\gamma$-Strahlung   & $\phantom{-}0$    & 0               & groß            \\ \bottomrule
        \end{tabularx}}
\end{table}

\end{document}

The result:

enter image description here

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[Tex/LaTex] Caption inside figure float

I suggest the following:

enter image description here

This is realized using the tcolorbox package:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{graphics}
\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionFormat{overlay}{\gdef\capoverlay{#1#2#3\par}}
\DeclareCaptionStyle{overlay}{format=overlay}

\usepackage[skins]{tcolorbox}

\tcbset{
  caption color/.store in=\captioncolor,
  caption color=white}

\newcommand{\mygraphics}[3][]{%
  \tcbincludegraphics[float*,every float=\centering,blanker,finish={%
    \captionsetup{skip=0pt}%
    \tcbsetmacrotowidthofnode\mywidth{interior}%
    \node[above,fill=\captioncolor,fill opacity=0.5,text opacity=1,
      outer sep=0mm,inner sep=2mm,text width=\mywidth-4mm]
      at (interior.south) {\captionof{figure}{#3}};},
    #1]{#2}%
}

\begin{document}

\mygraphics[caption color=blue!50]{Wing.png}
  {Many of the simple expressions in algebra can be thought of
   in terms of the areas of rectangles.}

\mygraphics[width=7cm]{example-image-a}
  {Many of the simple expressions in algebra can be thought of
   in terms of the areas of rectangles.}

\end{document}

I made a macro \mygraphics which takes two mandatory parameters: the name of the image file and the caption text. Further, a key list can be given as optional parameter. The keys can be any tcolorbox keys. The image is made a float* as was given by the OP.

In this application, the following options are especially interesting:

width to set the width of the image (shown in the example code). The default is the complete text width.
caption color to set the background color of the caption (show in the example code). The default is white.
floatplacement to set the float options like htb etc.

Update:

To scale the figure according to the natural size of included image, the hbox option can be added. But, many pictures may become larger than the textwidth. However, to give options to the underlying \includegraphics macro, you can use graphics options if needed.

The following code has the hbox option set as default. Also, the second example shows how to put a scale=0.5 option to a picture:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{graphics}
\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionFormat{overlay}{\gdef\capoverlay{#1#2#3\par}}
\DeclareCaptionStyle{overlay}{format=overlay}

\usepackage[skins]{tcolorbox}

\tcbset{
  caption color/.store in=\captioncolor,
  caption color=white}

\newcommand{\mygraphics}[3][]{%
  \tcbincludegraphics[float*,every float=\centering,blanker,
    hbox,% <--- the width is determined by the underlying '\includegraphics'
    finish={%
    \captionsetup{skip=0pt}%
    \tcbsetmacrotowidthofnode\mywidth{interior}%
    \node[above,fill=\captioncolor,fill opacity=0.5,text opacity=1,
      outer sep=0mm,inner sep=2mm,text width=\mywidth-4mm]
      at (interior.south) {\captionof{figure}{#3}};},
    #1]{#2}%
}

\begin{document}

\mygraphics[caption color=blue!50]{Wing.png}
  {Many of the simple expressions in algebra can be thought of
   in terms of the areas of rectangles.}

\mygraphics[graphics options={scale=0.5}]{example-image-a}
  {Many of the simple expressions in algebra can be thought of
   in terms of the areas of rectangles.}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Space between figure caption and bottom margin

You can use \flushbottom to get always the last line of a page aligned with the bottom of typing area.

Please see the code:

\documentclass[12pt]{report}

\usepackage[top=1.0in,hmargin=1.25in,height=9.0in,letterpaper,showframe]{geometry}
\usepackage[document]{ragged2e}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[%
  labelfont=bf,
  justification=RaggedRight,
  singlelinecheck=off,%
  labelsep=period
]{caption}

\usepackage{duckuments}
\usepackage{blindtext}


\begin{document}
\flushbottom % <========================================================
\RaggedRight
\doublespace
\chapter{Title of chapter}
\blindtext
\begin{figure}[b]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[height=3cm]{example-image-duck}
  \caption{This is a caption that is very long for the figure and it should be aligned with the bottom margin}
\end{figure}
\blindtext
\blindtext
\begin{figure}[t]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[height=3cm]{example-image-duck}
    \caption{This is the caption.}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

and the result:

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