How do I reduce the vertical space between a caption of a subfigure and the image of that subfigure?
I tried:
\subfigure[\vspace{-0.2in} caption words]
doesn't seem to do anything.
[Tex/LaTex] subfig caption spacing
captionsfloatssubfloats
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You can do it with caption package. The space between the caption and the figure is called skip (default is 10pt).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx} %% Remove [demo] in your file
%\usepackage{caption}
%\captionsetup[table]{font=small,skip=0pt} %% Adjust here
%or equivalently
\usepackage[font=small,skip=0pt]{caption}
\begin{document}
Some text...
\begin{figure}[htb]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[height=1in,width=1in,angle=-90]{foo}
\caption{This is a figure.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
More text...
\begin{table}[htb]
\centering
\caption{This is a table.}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
% after \\: \hline or \cline{col1-col2} \cline{col3-col4} ...
1 & 2 \\
4 & 7 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
More text...
\end{document}
Please note that \captionsetup{font=small,skip=0pt} affects both tables and figures. If you want it separately, you may use:
\captionsetup[table]{font=small,skip=0pt}
for tables only or
\captionsetup[figure]{font=small,skip=0pt}
for figures only.
I don't think using three different formats for the numbering of subfigures is good. Anyway, here it is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup[figure]{labelsep=period,justification=centering,singlelinecheck=off}
\DeclareCaptionLabelFormat{rightparen}{#2)}
\usepackage{subfig}
\captionsetup[subfloat]{labelformat=rightparen}
\showcaptionsetup[uniq]{subfloat}
\usepackage{xparse}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\seq_new:N \g_akj_subfloat_seq
\NewDocumentCommand{\xsubfloat}{ m m }
{
\akj_subfloat:nn { #1 } { #2 }
}
\NewDocumentCommand{\makexcaption}{o}
{
\caption{\IfNoValueF{#1}{#1~}Subfigures:~%
\seq_use:Nnnn \g_akj_subfloat_seq {;~} {;~} {;~}}
}
\cs_new_protected:Npn \akj_subfloat:nn #1 #2
{
% initialize
\int_compare:nT { \value{subfigure} = 0 }
{ \seq_gclear:N \g_akj_subfloat_seq }
% do the subfloat
\subfloat[]{#2}
% store the subcaption
\seq_gput_right:Nx \g_akj_subfloat_seq { (\exp_not:N\textit{\alph{subfigure}}) ~ \exp_not:n { #1 } }
}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\renewcommand{\thesubfigure}{\textit{\alph{subfigure}}}
\makeatletter
\def\p@subfigure{\thefigure\,}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\xsubfloat{subfigure A}{%
\rule{100pt}{50pt}%
\label{fig:subfig-a}%
}
\xsubfloat{subfigure B}{%
\rule{100pt}{50pt}%
\label{fig:subfig-b}%
}
\xsubfloat{subfigure C}{%
\rule{100pt}{50pt}%
\label{fig:subfig-c}%
}
\makexcaption\label{fig:figures}
\end{figure}
See Figures~\ref{fig:subfig-a}, \ref{fig:subfig-b} and~\ref{fig:subfig-c}.
\end{document}
The \makexcaption command has also an optional argument for text going before the list of subcaptions, so
\makexcaption[Some text.]
would produce
Figure 1. Some text. Subfigures: (a) subfigure A; (b) subfigure B; (c) subfigure C
Beware of unprotected end-of-lines in the arguments of \subfloat, that are the cause of your spurious spaces.
Best Answer
Try
You can read about customizing subfigure layout in Section 4 of the subfigure manual.