I have a figure in my paper (I am using IEEEtran package). After this figure there exists a space between the figure and the text. How can I reduce the size of this white space. To be specific the space is between the caption of the figure and the text of my paper. Any suggestions?
[Tex/LaTex] Remove space after figure and before text
floatsspacing
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While I wouldn't recommend it normally, you can also fiddle with the \multicolsep length.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\setlength{\multicolsep}{6.0pt plus 2.0pt minus 1.5pt}% 50% of original values
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{multicols}{3}
\noindent
\begin{equation}\sum F_x = 0\end{equation}
\begin{equation}\frac{dP}{dx} - p = 0\end{equation}
\begin{equation}\sum F_y = 0\end{equation}
\begin{equation}\frac{dQ}{dx} + q = 0\end{equation}
\begin{equation}\sum M = 0\end{equation}
\begin{equation}\frac{dQ}{dx} + q = 0\end{equation}
\end{multicols}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
In this elementary instance, you can use the following:
\documentclass{article}%
% The [demo] option is just for this example
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx
\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{1mm}}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}% Just for this example
\begin{document}
\centering
\includegraphics[width = 5.0cm]{logo.png}\par
\kern\dimexpr-\baselineskip-\parskip+2mm\relax
\HRule
\end{document}
Here \kern inserts vertical space. Since the \Hrule is set on the baseline and in a new paragraph, the vertical distance is reduced by \baselineskip+\parskip. An additional 2mm pushes \Hrule down far enough to leave a 1mm gap between the image and the line.
So, for example, if you want a 10bp gap between the image and your \Hrule, you would use
\kern\dimexpr-\baselineskip-\parskip+1mm+10bp\relax
In general, if you contain your images inside a figure environment, you can modify the length \intextsep. For this, read the layouts documentation.
Best Answer
This depends on the location of the float - if the float is at the top of the page, the gap between the caption and the text is
\textfloatsep, while the gap for a float in the middle of the page is given by\intextsep.From the
layoutspackage documentation it is possible to see the lengths in terms of page/document float elements (p 21 onward):Default for
ieeetranare\textfloatsep:1.7\baselineskip plus 0.2\baselineskip minus 0.5\baselineskip\intextsep:\baselineskip plus 0.2\baselineskip minus 0.2\baselineskipand therefore depends on the choice of the default font (since that sets
\baselineskip). The default pt-form is therefore\textfloatsep:20.4pt plus 2.4pt minus 4.8pt\intextsep:12.0pt plus 2.4pt minus 2.4ptin the
10ptfont size. The above includes some stretch/shrink. You can modify them using\setlength. For example,would allow for between (roughly)
10ptand15ptgap between the float and the text. Something likewould fix the distance to
5pt(without stretch/shrink).