[Tex/LaTex] Restyling the caption in an algorithm created with algorithm2e

algorithm2ecaptions

In the caption of an algorithm created with algorithm2e,

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[ruled]{algorithm2e}

\begin{document}

\begin{algorithm}[H]
\caption{Caption.}
pseudocode
\end{algorithm}

\end{document}

"Algorithm 1:" comes out bold. How could I change its font, say, to small caps?

Also, how could I make "Algorithm 1." appear instead?

Best Answer

The algorithm2e package offers \SetAlgoCaptionSeparator to change the caption separator and \AlCapFnt to control the font for the label of the caption:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ruled]{algorithm2e}

\SetAlgoCaptionSeparator{.}
\renewcommand\AlCapFnt{\normalfont\scshape}

\begin{document}

\begin{algorithm}[H]
\caption{Caption.}
pseudocode
\end{algorithm}

\end{document}

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If you want this setting, i.e., a space instead of a colon, to apply to figure environments as well, you'd just remove the [table] option from the \captionsetup command.

A separate issue: To get the caption to print above the body of the float, all you need to do is to specify the caption (and its label, if any) after the \begin{table/figure} command but before starting a tabular environment and/or before including some external graphics file.

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Perhaps not an answer, but it was too long to make it a comment. The documentation of the caption package says:

If you don’t find the document class you use in this section, you usually don’t have to worry: Many document classes (e.g. the octavo class) are derived from one of the standard document classes article, report, or book, and behave the same regarding captions. The caption package automatically does a compatibility check against the document class used and will give you the clear warning
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See the caption package documentation for explanation.
if such an incompatibility was detected. If you don’t get such warning everything is fine, but if you get it the usage of the caption package is not recommended and especially not supported.

If you get such a compatibility warning but decide to use the caption package anyway, you should watch carefully what side-effects occur, usually the look and feel of your captions will change by just including the caption package without options, meaning they do not look like as intended by the author of the document class. If this is fine for you, you should first specify the option style=base via \usepackage[style=base]{caption} or \captionsetup{style=base} to set the caption package into a well-defined state. Afterwards you can start setting your own options additionally and keep your fingers crossed.

Also, according to the documentation, the supported document classes are:

Standard LaTeX: book, report, article
AMS: amsart, amsproc, amsbook
beamer
KOMA-Script: scrreprt, scrartcl, scrbook
NTG: artikel, rapport, boek
SMF: smafart, smfbook
thesis

So, there's no problem using caption with the standard report document class. Since you are using a derived document class, you should pay attention to the last paragraph of the quote at the beginning of this message.

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