[Tex/LaTex] Width of table captions when using threeparttable in memoir

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In the MWE below, I would like the table caption to be left aligned, and have a maximum width as the width of the table.

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,oneside,openany,showtrims,strict,extrafontsizes]{memoir}
\usepackage{tabulary,lipsum,threeparttable}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=sc]{caption}
\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\newpage
\listoffigures

\chapter{Chapter one starts here}
\section{Heading}

\lipsum[4]


\begin{table}
\caption{\label{orgspecialblock1}
Average yields and average income, by State, India}
\begin{threeparttable}
{\small
\begin{tabulary}{\textwidth}{Lrr}
State & Average yield & Average income\\
\hline
Madhya Pradesh & 669 & 13000\\
Haryana & 300 & 25000\\
Punjab & 260 & 35000\\
\end{tabulary}}
\begin{tablenotes}
\item[] \footnotesize Notes:
\item[1] \footnotesize This table is very nice but this note is
very long, so long that it goes wider than the table
\item[2] \footnotesize This is a second note. But this is not
very wide.
\item[] \footnotesize Source: akshd aksjhd akjshd
\end{tablenotes}
\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}

\chapter{Chapter two starts here}
\section{Heading}

\lipsum[4]

\end{document}

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Put the caption inside threeparttable

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,oneside,openany,showtrims,strict,extrafontsizes]{memoir}
\usepackage{tabulary,lipsum,threeparttable}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=sc]{caption}
\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\newpage
\listoffigures

\chapter{Chapter one starts here}
\section{Heading}

\lipsum[4]


\begin{table}[htb]   %% add [htb] here for better
\begin{threeparttable}
\caption{\label{orgspecialblock1}
Average yields and average income, by State, India}
{\small
\begin{tabulary}{\textwidth}{Lrr}
State & Average yield & Average income\\
\hline
Madhya Pradesh & 669 & 13000\\
Haryana & 300 & 25000\\
Punjab & 260 & 35000\\
\end{tabulary}}
\begin{tablenotes}
\item[] \footnotesize Notes:
\item[1] \footnotesize This table is very nice but this note is
very long, so long that it goes wider than the table
\item[2] \footnotesize This is a second note. But this is not
very wide.
\item[] \footnotesize Source: akshd aksjhd akjshd
\end{tablenotes}
\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}

\chapter{Chapter two starts here}
\section{Heading}

\lipsum[4]

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Resizing table when using package {threeparttable}

threeparttable wants to see tabular and tablenotes at the outer level, not buried into adjustbox.

Thinks very carefully before deciding to scale a table. For instance, a body text of 14pt is humongous and will make the scaled table disappear with respect to the text.

I reduced to 11pt, which is a quite large font size.

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{scrreprt}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage{threeparttable}
\usepackage[labelfont=bf]{caption}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage[a4paper, bindingoffset=0.5cm, tmargin=2.4cm, bmargin=3.4cm, lmargin=3.5cm, rmargin=2.5cm, footskip=2.4cm]{geometry}

\begin{document}
This is some text which refers to Table~\ref{tab:Table}
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Table caption.}
\label{tab:Table}
\begin{adjustbox}{max width=\textwidth}
\begin{threeparttable}
\begin{tabular}{@{}l*{10}{c}@{}}
\toprule
Item & Col 2 & Col 3 & Col 4 & Col 5 & Col 6 & Col 7 & Col 8 & Col 9 & Col 10 & Col 11 \\
\midrule
Some sort of stuff\tnote{a} & 107.5 & 5.62 & 89.1 & \num{14367.7} & 3.4 & 21.9 & 112.6 & \num{18644} & 432.4 & 17 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\begin{tablenotes}
\small
\item[a] This sort of stuff is only available in winter.
\end{tablenotes}
\end{threeparttable}
\end{adjustbox}
\end{table}
Some more text.
\end{document}

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Would I scale also the caption? No way.

[Tex/LaTex] Table width wider than textwidth in threeparttable environment

When reducing the font size to make a wide table "fit" inside the width of the text block, LaTeX doesn't shrink the amount of intercolumn whitspace proportionally. To salvage any chances of having a readable table, it's important to shrink the amount of intercolumn whitespace as well.

I suggest you (i) reorganize the table's header to collect the repeated "Ref." and (ii) use a tabular* environment instead of the basic tabular environment. With these two changes made, it's still necessary to use \scriptsize, for a 30% linear reduction of the main font size.

The first horizontal line in the screenshot is there to illustrate the width of the textblock.

\documentclass[a4paper, 10pt]{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{labelsep=period, skip=5pt}
\usepackage[flushleft]{threeparttable}

\begin{document}
\hrule  % just to illustrate width of textblock

\begin{table}[h]
\scriptsize
\setlength\tabcolsep{0pt} % let LaTeX determine whitespace between columns
\begin{threeparttable}

\caption{Optimal results of Example 2}
\label{tab:results2}
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}*{9}{c}}
\toprule
Item & \multicolumn{8}{c}{Ref.} & Our method\\
\cmidrule{2-9}
& 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8\\
\midrule
Utility (kW) & 2000 & 3800.00 & 4200.00  & 4200.00 & 4200.00 & 4200.00& 4200.00 & 4200.00 & 5000.00\\
Capital cost\tnote{a} (k\$) & 163.27 & & & & & & & & \\
Total annual cost (k\$) & 2268.59 & & & & -- & & & & \\
\bottomrule 
\end{tabular*}  

\begin{tablenotes} 
\scriptsize               
\item[a]  Based on the cost parameters from ref.~6. 
\item[--]  Not reported in literature.
\end{tablenotes}

\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}
\end{document}

If you're willing to allow line breaks in the first column, it's possible to use \footnotesize (for a 20% reduction in font size) instead of \scriptsize. If you choose this method, you could use a tabularx environment (instead of the tabular* environment used above) to simplify getting optimal line breaks in column 1. I would also suggest you contemplate aligning the numeric data in columns 2 thru 10 on their respective decimal markers, in order to improved the table's readability. I would also replace the slightly comical-looking k\$ with 10^\textsuperscript{3} \$.

\documentclass[a4paper, 10pt]{article}
\usepackage{booktabs,tabularx,ragged2e,dcolumn}
\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\RaggedRight}X}
\newcolumntype{d}[1]{D..{#1}}
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{labelsep=period, skip=5pt}
\usepackage[flushleft]{threeparttable}
\newcommand\mc[1]{\multicolumn{1}{@{}c@{}}{#1}} % handy shortcut macro
\begin{document}
\hrule  % just to illustrate width of textblock

\begin{table}[h]
\footnotesize
\setlength\tabcolsep{1.5pt} % let LaTeX determine whitespace between columns
\begin{threeparttable}

\caption{Optimal results of Example 2}
\label{tab:results2}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}Y*{9}{d{4.2}}@{}}
\toprule
Item & \multicolumn{8}{c}{Ref.} & \mc{Our method}\\
\cmidrule(lr){2-9}
& \mc{1} & \mc{2} & \mc{3} & \mc{4} & \mc{5} & \mc{6} & \mc{7} & \mc{8}\\
\midrule
Utility (kW) & 2000 & 3800.00 & 4200.00  & 4200.00 & 4200.00 & 4200.00& 4200.00 & 4200.00 & 5000.00\\
Capital cost\tnote{a} (10\textsuperscript{3}\,\$) 
& 163.27 & & & & & & & & \\
Total annual cost (10\textsuperscript{3}\,\$) 
& 2268.59 & & & & \mc{--} & & & & \\
\bottomrule 
\end{tabularx}  

\begin{tablenotes}              
\item[a]   Based on the cost parameters from ref.~6. 
\item[--]  Not reported in literature.
\end{tablenotes}

\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}
\end{document}

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