[texhax] Long Caption in Table

Philip G. Ratcliffe philip.ratcliffe at uninsubria.it
Tue Mar 31 09:39:59 CEST 2009


> > I finally managed to create a table that look pretty good; however,
> > the caption for this table is quite lengthy and I can't see how it  
> > can be written over two or three lines so this caption would have  
> > the same width as the table.
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate if someone could help me with 
> this problem
> 
> The caption package seems to me the help you need. In your 
> terminal or  
> Command Prompt, do
> 
> texdoc caption-eng

Actually, in a footnote on page 11 of the manual the author states: "Only
fixed widths are supported here; if you are looking for a way to limit the
width of the caption to the width of the figure or table, please take a look
at the floatrow [8] or threeparttable [22] package."




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